His magnificent sacred Indian elephant, a polyptych painted over 5 years, an epic overview of Alexander the Great, and his phantasmagoric Jupiter and Semele in full detail.
Category Archive: Painting
Noli me tangere, Latin from the Vulgate for “don’t touch me”, are the opening words of Jesus when first seen by Mary Magdalene after his Resurrection. Here are the paintings.
Daughter of Jules Breton, a precocious artist who painted mothers and their children, and the fisher folk of the Opal Coast between Calais and Boulogne, and inspired Vincent van Gogh.
Integrating 23 scenes of the Passion into a single painting, this is a unique account of events leading up to and following the Crucifixion.
Hercules killing the Lernean Hydra, then a series of paintings of Salome that led to the femme fatale and a change in a well-known story. Finally a remarkable painting of Moses before discovery.
In 1880, a detailed realist, he then became more experimental with looser brushstrokes before adopting Divisionism in 1887. His later paintings took over from where van Gogh left off.
How Hogarth developed his painting and print narrative series from rough drawings. Examples of prints made after paintings by Mary Cassatt and Nikolai Astrup for different reasons.
Charles and Ubaldo show Rinaldo how he has become a woman’s dandy, and get him to return to the crusade with them, leaving Armida seeking her vengeance.
Over 20 years of views over the lake from Hodler, with his Parallelist style, and culminating in some of the most sublime landscapes in European painting.
Paintings from 19th century masters including JMW Turner, the Swiss specialist Alexandre Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and Gustave Courbet in exile.
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