John Singer Sargent’s huge murals of classical myths, two last narrative paintings by Lovis Corinth, modern style in portraits by Anita RĂ©e, and Oleksandra Ekster’s ‘Theatrical Composition’.
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Christmas trees cut in the woods, or bought in a seasonal market. Queen Marie and ordinary families gathered round, and finally falling asleep exhausted.
Portraits by Lovis Corinth, Thomas Eakins’ widow Susan, a great Estonian pastellist, and others, and insights into Pierre Bonnard’s conflicted personal life.
Paintings by David Teniers the Younger, Domenicus van Wijnen, Tiepolo, Fantin-Latour, CĂ©zanne, FĂ©licien Rops and Lovis Corinth.
Hephaistos or Vulcan in classical myth, cheated on by Aphrodite/Venus, and as creator of Pandora. In Bosch’s Last Judgement, and elsewhere.
Tuna fishing in Spain, goldfish sold as pets or in a Berlin flat, underwater with a diver, and in many still lifes, including those of William Merritt Chase, the master of fish.
Drawing the chariot of Bacchus/Dionysus, fighting with Christian martyrs, in a Paris zoo, or torrential rain in a tropical storm, or being hunted to be turned into a skin.
Worn by Mars, Athena/Minerva and Bellona, it also featured in the war against Troy. It was worn by Joan of Arc, and by Lovis Corinth too.
In the 20th century, those visiting the south of France claimed nude bathing was traditional, while the rest of Europe and the USA were still developing bathing costumes.
His finest narrative paintings from Susanna and the Elders in 1890, through Salome and Homeric Laughter, to Ariadne on Naxos and the Trojan Horse in 1924.
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