Heracles unwittingly sets up his later death when he thinks the centaur Nessus is trying to abduct his wife Deianira, and shoots him in the back with one of his arrows poisoned with the blood of the Lernean hydra.
Category Archive: Painting
Paintings by Paul Signac, Evelyn De Morgan, Marsden Hartley, Tom Thomson, Egon Schiele, Julian Onderdonk, Paul Nash, and others.
Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Inness, Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Alfred Sisley, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, William Merritt Chase, and others.
Little is known of one of the greatest of the Venetian masters, and few of his paintings can be attributed with confidence to his hand. He died of plague in the summer of 1510, aged 32-33.
Revived in the 19th century, stories painted by JMW Turner, Camille Corot, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Lovis Corinth, Aksel Johannessen and Thomas Hart Benton.
Scots pines from Northern Europe, a huge umbrella pine in Saint-Tropez, and maritime pines from the Mediterranean coast, painted by Théo van Rysselberghe among others.
After rescuing Hesione from a sea monster, he wrestled with Achelous for the hand of Deianira in marriage, and created the cornucopia.
Known now for her illustrations, she was a talented watercolour painter who documented country cottages and life in southern England, and was the first woman to be elected to full membership of the Royal Watercolour Society.
How two members of the Bloomsbury Group battled with John Singer Sargent and destroyed his reputation for nearly 50 years, and reshaped 20th century painting.
How the criticism of John Ruskin unintentionally made it practically impossible to paint landscapes in the latter half of the 19th century.
