Series of paintings showing the journey of life are unusual. Here are excerpts from Poussin’s Seven Sacraments, Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life, and the start of Louis Janmot’s 34-image epic.
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Corot’s view from the Boboli Gardens, Thomas Cole, John Brett’s landscape masterwork, intimate view from local painters, and a portrait by Paul Sérusier.
Paintings from 1845 by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church his pupil, Winslow Homer, and other American artists from the 18th century.
Romantic views of castles in the mountains from Carl Friedrich Lessing, and more accurate accounts by Gustave Courbet and others.
With 8 named peaks over 5,000 metres (16,400 feet), this range on the border between Europe and Asia forms a formidable barrier.
Painted accounts of the great flood from Genesis, by Michelangelo, Elsheimer, Thomas Cole, JMW Turner and others.
A vast canvas with an apocalyptic vision of death and destruction? It must be one of John Martin’s, then. Another distinctive British narrative painter.
Declared sublime, and named after the throat, they’re painted from the mid-18th century. Works by Wolf, Turner, Ward, German Romantics and more.
From sacred symbols in a mosaic of Theodora and the Adoration of the Lamb, to roadside watering holes, and the town’s fresh water supply.
In case you missed or have forgotten them: some of the highlights of articles on paintings published here from Jan to June last year.
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