Why did it take over 300 years to solve a compositional problem, and tell such a simple story?
Category Archive: Painting
Copyright should protect the creators and their work. It has been turned on its head, to generate immoral earnings for companies who have no rights in much of the content they sell.
Introduction to a series explaining the history of oil paint, effects on techniques, hence on paintings themselves.
Also a grim story of suicidal disembowelling, and a propaganda painting for Napoleon.
Probably the latest painting of his to have survived, its rich and rollicking detail make it a great masterpiece.
Is it right that image libraries should charge their customers for the use of content which they know is in the public domain?
A selection of the better paintings from Tissot’s 350+ on the life of Christ, and his unfinished series of Old Testament stories.
Since they were first shown at the end of the 1800s, Tissot’s 350+ paintings of the life of Christ have been controversial, but much loved.
Sublimely clear and simple paintings showing the routes to Heaven and Hell, but no one knows how they were arranged.
A major influence in Italian art in the 1800s, he was highly skilled in telling stories, and solved problems which had troubled the Masters before.
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