A plain near Dresden, the floodplains of Silesia, Backwaters in Essex, York Harbour on the coast of Maine, the Pontic Steppe, Skagen in Denmark, and more.
Category Archive: Painting
Burke’s sublime became attractive to some in the late 18th century. They took to the mountains, to record high peaks and narrow gorges in paintings. First of a new series.
Jacob’s Ladder, the Crucifixion, scaling the walls of Charlemagne’s Paris, picking fruit, or just crossing a dry stone wall.
Able to develop distinctive movements, many of these artists trained in Ukraine under Ukrainian artists, and were part of the development of modernist painting.
Summary of each episode in this 26-part series covering the Epic Cycle of Troy, from Zeus deciding to reduce the weight of people on the earth, to the death of Odysseus.
A series of four paintings commissioned by an industrialist lead the way for the painters of the next generation.
From herons flying above the fields and rivers, to the bustling streets of Paris and New York. Then taking to the air among the clouds of war.
Long before any person took to the air, artists were already imagining World Views of major land battles and the countryside around them.
His final and unusual paintings, of Ovid in exile in Scythia, his last shipwreck, the Education of Achilles, and Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains.
Janus, Hecate, the personification of Deceit, Cerberus guardian of the Underworld, and the Lernean Hydra.
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