An index to 143 well-known narratives covered in the series about narrative paintings. A unique resource.
Category Archive: Painting
Unique paintings of the ancient history of France, in response to dreadful defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
Best known as the most influential children’s book illustrator, he painted several narrative paintings too.
A contemporary and friend of Turner, Etty, Cole, and Allston, his narrative paintings are very different.
Painting a literary narrative, by Rembrandt, John Martin, and Washington Allston.
Damned by twentieth-century critic Clement Greenberg, his paintings showed classical narratives, with increasing amounts of action.
The artist gives an account of three paintings from her forthcoming book, a highly successful Kickstart project.
He specialised in showing the human impact of war, on the combatants, and civilians.
When a publisher shuts, physical books don’t lock themselves, erase their pages, or crumble into dust. eBooks do.
Was he really one of the most important French painters of the nineteenth century?
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