Is that the god Cupid, a Cupid, a putto, an amorino, or a cherub? The differences explained and illustrated in paintings by Botticelli, Titian, Raphael and others.
Category Archive: Painting
From a Belarusian family, born in Poland, trained and launched her career in Kyiv, and built her reputation in Paris. Yet still served food in traditional Ukrainian ceramic pots and dishes.
A princess takes her handmaids to the coast to wash her fine robes and themselves. Out steps Odysseus, naked except for strategic leaves, and asks for their help.
When the sun doesn’t set at all, or sinks little before rising again. Paintings from North Cape to the US East Coast.
Strictly the Eve of Saint the Baptist, it’s marked in the Nordic and other European countries with bonfires, feasting and dancing.
After a set of 17 lithographs illustrating Goethe’s ‘Faust’, his most famous painting of ‘Liberty Leading the People’ that was only seen infrequently over the next 40 years.
Brunelleschi’s geometry, Masaccio’s technique and vision, Alberti’s initial and popular account, followed by a comprehensive account by Piero della Francesca.
The goddess Diana, Selene, the Virgin and Child, or is it just the moon in the sky of a pastoral landscape? Paintings from Bosch to van Gogh.
Born in Kharkiv and trained in Moscow, he became a Neo-Primitivist after attending further training in Paris.
Odysseus is lashed to the mast as his ship passes the Sirens without being lured away. He’s the only survivor after shipwreck, then is trapped with Calypso for seven years.
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