The son of Zeus when he raped Alcmene, Hera delayed his birth to trap Heracles into being forced to undertake his 12 labours, then tried to kill the infant by putting serpents into his cradle.
Category Archive: Painting
From yachting in Cowes, moving east along the Channel coast to end at the extreme eastern tip of Kent, with paintings from William Dyce, Walter Sickert, Paul Nash, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith and others.
A journey along the Channel coast from Land’s End in the far west, reaching the Isle of Wight, with Clarkson Stanfield, Thomas Girtin, John Brett, Paul Nash, JMW Turner and others.
His major painting of Wellington’s triumph fails and cost him dearly. Equestrian and dog portraits pay the bills, and his painterly oil sketches remain innovative.
Initially he applied coarser dots on areas of more even colour, used simultaneous colour contrast, then his blobs grew to become patches of paint resembling the tesserae of mosaics.
Overview and links to each of the articles in this series looking at shade and shadow in figurative and landscape paintings.
Early works followed Constable or his teacher Michallon, and excelled in anatomy. His trees became more gestural, with daubs and marks as he led the start of Impressionism.
First he fights a beggar, then plans how to get rid of his wife’s many suitors by killing them all. He then fears his son will kill him, but succumbs to the venom in a stingray spine.
An early painting of an eruption in 1631, later works by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, Albert Bierstadt, Charles Caryl Coleman and others.
Mount Fuji by Hokusai, Naotake, Hiroshige, and pioneer botanical painter Marianne North. Childe Hassam’s Mounts Adams and St Helens, Church’s Cotopaxi, and others.
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