Humans have always wanted to fly, but Icarus warned us of the dangers. Despite those, Goethe’s Faust, witches, and pioneers with hot air balloons seem to have succeeded.
Category Archive: Painting
Jason is given three tasks, in which he is aided by Medea the sorceress. First he yokes a team of fire-breathing bulls to plough a field, then sows dragon’s teeth, before the prize of the Golden Fleece.
Superb paintings of the Kintyre coast, on the west coast of Scotland, painted between 1878 and 1897, in his distinctive style.
Second-generation Icelandic painter, who died tragically young at only 32 of TB. Mostly views of Iceland, and religious works.
Sixteen views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, painted between 1745 and 2006, showing where they were painted from.
A Norwegian trained in Düsseldorf, he painted studies in oils in front of the motif, then developed them into finely detailed finished works in the studio.
Just monkeying about in the Dutch Golden Age, with cats in a barbershop, as a sculptor, and the amazing paintings of Gabriel von Max.
In some of the earliest European paintings, the Fall of Man, the fable of the cat’s paw, in Vanitas paintings, and for their mischief and mayhem.
The beautiful Orithyia is betrothed to the north wind of winter, Boreas, but is rejected by her father. He takes matters into his own hands, and sweeps her off to be his wife.
Paintings of Istanbul and its surroundings by Alberto Pasini, Anders Zorn, Michael Zeno Diemer, Paul Signac, and pioneer Osman Hamdi Bey.
The Eclectic Light Company 