The interiors of an artist’s studio, realistic or fantastic, those of the Netherlands a century earlier, a cotton office in New Orleans, and more.
Alma-Tadema
First popular in the Dutch Golden Age, paintings of interiors enjoyed success during the 19th century, when they were favourites of the avant garde.
Did Sappho really throw herself from the Leucadian Cliff when she was jilted by Phaon the local ferryman, or was Ovid ridiculing the story?
Aesculapius, Psyche, the Esquiline Venus, views in Roman villas, Queen Sheba visiting King Solomon, storm nymphs, and a lascivious dance.
In an act of revenge by Aphrodite, Phaedra, wife of Theseus, falls in love with her stepson Hippolytus, with tragic consequences.
Carrying infants, including Moses, figs with a few asps, the master’s dinner, Manet’s luncheon on the grass, snacks, banquets, and fruit.
In classical times, they were strummed like a guitar rather than plucked. Apollo, Orpheus and lyric poets from Raphael, Rubens, Waterhouse and others.
Badminton, tennis, rowing regattas and races, and boxing, pictured by George Bellows, Alfred Sisley, Thomas Eakins and others.
Storm in the Bay of Biscay, a deep fake of 1808, a dedication for a wedding present, the Trojan Horse, and remarkable modern narratives.
Before photography, the only opportunity to see your face, painters took advantage of the Venus Effect to break optical rules and show faces that couldn’t have been seen in the mirror.
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