Although he did not even make his 26th birthday, Bonington was very successful, and a great influence on Delacroix and others since.
Category Archive: Painting
An explanation and apology for yesterday’s April foolery: and the paintings correctly attributed.
Spoof was originally a card game. But why April fools? A quick trip around trickery.
Thanks to painstaking work in the Mouton-Rothschild Collection, a new artist is being added to the canon of Impressionists.
What are the differences in technique between Indian and European narrative painting?
Have you been fascinated by paintings from India, but have been afraid to ask for more understanding? If so, this book is aimed at you.
Unheard of now outside Germany, his narrative paintings look straightforward at first. But when you try reading them…
One reason for the continuing popularity of more traditional means of storytelling is their lack of explicitness, and reliance on the imagination.
How Rembrandt’s uses lighting to enhance and add to his narrative, and how one of his greatest paintings got cut up and went to Sweden.
Covers 18 well-known narratives from post-classical history, with example paintings for each.
The Eclectic Light Company 