This early work showing a key scene from Christ’s Passion is beautifully composed and rich in relevant detail.
Category Archive: Painting
A major Symbolist painter, his favourite themes included death, Medusa, angels, and the book of Tobit.
Tales of knights and doomed maidens, the Lady of Shalott and the quest for the Holy Grail, painted in static tableau.
Probably his earliest surviving painting, his originality and genius are already starting to shine through its conventional features.
In his later works, he turned to biting satire of the courts, artists, and even their dealers. His was a very different form of Impression.
An Impressionist, whose incisive drawings and paintings were often controversial – and now almost forgotten.
Terms used to describe narrative mode in paintings are confusing. Here is a simpler classification, and clearer terms.
The task: a simple, clickable interactive plan of paintings of Piazza San Marco in Venice, using HTML5.
Portraits and more of mysterious beauty and fascination. No quick thrills, but haunting images.
There have been four different readings of this well-known painting. Does any of them work, or should we look to a different account?
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