Fading and colour change in paints has been well-described since 1400. Shown here in examples using indigo, it wasn’t properly investigated until the late 19th century.
Category Archive: Painting
Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of this innovative Florentine painter, a contemporary of Botticelli.
Don Quixote is shown a bust, product of an enchanter, which answers questions truthfully, but not on Fridays. Everyone is amazed, apart from Sancho Panza.
Twentieth-century paintings of Spring, from Renoir to Grant Wood, with the help of Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Granville Redmond and others.
This is when the year should really begin. A celebration of the real New Year from Botticelli to Pissarro, aided by Sisley, Van Gogh and others.
Around 25,000 live in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. Here are paintings of traditional life in the rugged and snowy terrain.
Crammed into this crowded street scene in one of London’s leafy suburbs is a detailed account of the breadth and depth of contemporary Victorian society.
Initially, Sickert had tried to make a career in theatre before painting. He loved music halls, and painted many during the late 19th century.
Joshua Reynolds, who aspired to paint like Rembrandt; JMW Turner who explored colour contrasts and texture; Edgar Degas, who dried his oils before painting.
They find themselves in the midst of hanged outlaws, then are surrounded by living bandits. Eventually they reach Barcelona and see the sea.
The Eclectic Light Company 