Boarding a canoe to shoot a swan in the Underworld, war canoes north of Vancouver Island, and the Canadian painter-canoeist Tom Thomson.
Category Archive: Life
From the Duke of Orleans white-water canoeing in Lapland in 1795, to Canadian fur traders shooting the rapids in the 1860s.
Scenes of the Valencian fishing industry, a psychiatrist researching with his microscope, and young boys with disabilities enjoying the sea.
A fun scene from Orlando Furioso, Ophelia’s death, two scenes from Jerusalem Delivered, one of the earliest works painted from a photo, and small boats in rough seas.
In earlier paintings, unicorns are usually intended to be real animals. They also have symbolic associations with chastity which lasted longer.
A history painter from west Ukraine, who was appointed professor in Kyiv before he fell from grace in 1937, and was charged as a terrorist.
A diversion to see the Cumaean Sibyl at Lake Avernus and visit the Underworld produced some of the finest narrative landscapes.
Shepherds, children tending geese or with their parents working in the harvest, Sargent’s friends slumbering in their siesta, and an enigma.
Cimon and Iphigenia, from Boccaccio’s Decameron, and others from classical tales of taking siestas outdoors.
Starting with gentle Impressionism in Paris in the summer of 1885, he quickly became an eloquent Naturalist documenting contemporary Spain.
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