Declared sublime, and named after the throat, they’re painted from the mid-18th century. Works by Wolf, Turner, Ward, German Romantics and more.
Category Archive: Painting
Youngest of the four women French Impressionists, she died first, and was probably the most prolific. Only known now from the portrait of her painted by her teacher, Manet.
The River Seine at Samois, near Fontainebleau, including a steamboat, the River Verdon flowing through the gorge at Castellane, and Mirabeau Bridge in Paris.
David’s Neoclassicism brought uniformity and lack of surface texture. Romanticism followed, with garments dissolving into brushstrokes.
An introduction to colourspaces, gamuts, and how images are rendered in colour, so that what you see on your display or in a print looks right.
Walkover success in another duel, but Don Quixote changes his mind and heads for Barcelona. After adventures there on a galley, he’s finally defeated on the beach, and obliged to return home.
On the morning of 22 August 1911, he arrived to paint the Mona Lisa, but it had vanished from the wall of the Louvre. Who had stolen it?
Sargent’s paintings of Claude Monet and other artists painting, mostly in front of the motif, form a unique record of painters and their techniques.
Applying his soft pastels to vellum, his paintings are hyper-realist in their fine detail. He was also an eccentric, living mostly in Turkish dress, and a renowned painter of portraits.
More fine views of Saint-Tropez, including a young woman supposedly dying of TB, an industrial Paris cityscape, and an anarchist worker.
The Eclectic Light Company 