Paul Cézanne led the way in Aix-en-Provence, followed rapidly by Renoir, Signac, Cross, Luce, van Rysselberghe, and Pierre Bonnard.
Corot
Repoussoir through windows, doors, then invading the middle of the painting with Corot and Pissarro, before Cézanne inverted it altogether.
The grandson of the founder of Thebes happens into Diana’s sacred wood when out hunting, and sees the goddess naked. She changes him into a stag, with fatal consequences.
Richard Parkes Bonington, Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind all painted this small town opposite Le Havre.
Two years break from painting ceilings, in which he painted five floral works, several landscapes, and went skying.
Tragedy for the great bard, as his attempt to rescue Eurydice from the Underworld fails, and he is later torn limb from limb by furious Maenads.
Cadmus, Europa’s brother, kills a dragon and sows its teeth to grow into the men who help him build Thebes. But his grandson Actaeon is killed when he catches Diana bathing.
From Bellini in 1496, through Canaletto, to JMW Turner in 1840, views of Piazza San Marco in Venice.
In Rome, in search of the temple of Aesculapius, and in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, with Corot, Velázquez, Valenciennes, and others.
Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton.