Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (MusĂ©e d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
Category Archive: Painting
Three saints in Bosch’s fantastic wildernesses show his mature style and unique vision.
If you thought that Klimt was the only important Austrian painter of the 1800s, look here: more radical than even French artists.
He painted Paris, its highlife and lowlife, during the Belle Époque, but has been largely ignored by art historians.
An extraordinary optical illusion by Kokichi Sugihara.
The only panel surviving from a triptych. An original composition and almost personal involvement of the viewer.
Unconventional treatments of popular stories, spiritual pain during the First World War, a touch of Blake, and woman murdering woman. Powerful paintings.
A brilliant woman painter, spiritualist, pacifist, and feminist, this tells of her remarkable life, art, and narrative.
Manet’s remarkably early painting of a cyclist dates from 1871, but the Impressionists appear to have ignored the new kings of the road.
Its many intricate details make this the greatest of his early works, a true masterpiece. And it features another owl.
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