More sinister and ‘Gothic’ landscapes from one of the leaders of the DĂĽsseldorf School, and last of the German Romantics.
Category Archive: Painting
Poussin, Church, Grimshaw, Peterssen, Bierstadt, Turner, CĂ©zanne, Klimt and Hodler paint lakes.
When the nymph Salmacis falls in passionate love with the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, he resists, and they are joined together in single body.
Sorolla’s White Slave Trade, a mother’s adultery and break up of her family, the awakened conscience offering redemption, or destitution.
From William Hogarth’s series “A Harlot’s Progress”, to the descent of the seamstress from sewing machine to prostitution. A popular 19th century story.
Thumbs up or down in the gladiatorial arena, French history, the leading general in the Greek War of Independence, and the Wailing Wall.
Painted either from a kayak or canoe, or dependent on gaining access using one. Biard, Frances Anne Hopkins, and the great Tom Thomson.
A younger successor to Caspar David Friedrich, and prominent member of the DĂĽsseldorf School, he was both a Romantic and an influence on the Hudson River School.
European grey herons, seen in paintings by Aelbert Cuyp, Hans Thoma, Daubigny, Frédéric Bazille, Alfred Sisley and others.
The stories of Venus and Mars, caught in bed together by her husband Vulcan, and the unrequited loves of Leucothoë and Clytie for the Sun.
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