Centred on Caspar David Friedrich, they were influenced by Claude-Joseph Vernet, Caspar Wolf, Philip James de Loutherbourg and Henry Fuseli.
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Ariadne’s Corona Borealis, a difficult reading from Tintoretto, celestial spheres, constellations of summer, and signs of the zodiac.
Ursa Major, often the only constellation people know today, the Milky Way, the Pleiades, and Sagittarius.
Jupiter rapes an Arcadian nymph and follower of Diana, who is then cast out, turned into a bear by Juno, and almost killed by her son.
From 1890, he painted views of Paris in increasingly loose style. Recognised internationally, he served on the jury for the Carnegie, and competed at the 1912 Olympics.
Initially a social realist, he painted those on the edge of Paris society, including rag pickers and a garlic seller, but was rejected by Monet.
Contents with links for each article in the series, with lists of mountains and locations covered.
Ten domestic interiors, places we take for granted, but Vallotton makes them thoroughly unsettling, with oddities and open narratives.
Played by warriors including Paris of Troy and Achilles, also by Saint Cecilia, angels, and a siren. And with only one string left, in Watts’ allegory of Hope.
In classical times, they were strummed like a guitar rather than plucked. Apollo, Orpheus and lyric poets from Raphael, Rubens, Waterhouse and others.
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