Juana the Mad, who refused to let her husband be buried, resurrection of the drowned, funerals in the Carpathians, and fear of being buried alive.
Courbet
In seascapes with waves, and on land with the foliage of trees. Paintings by Turner, Courbet, Gainsborough, Monet, Winslow Homer and more.
Gambling as a sure road to Hell, with Bosch, Caravaggio, Georges de la Tour, Hogarth, Géricault, Courbet, Rossetti, and others.
Carrying Caravaggio’s rotting fruit, bread from the cereal harvest, Vermeer’s milkmaid, fish, dirty washing, lambs, rocks and garlic.
Artists in Europe seldom painted prominent near-breaking waves until the latter half of the 19th century, when Hokusai’s woodblock print of ‘The Great Wave’ became popular.
Huge divans, closed wooden cabinets, and iron bedsteads. In love, marriage, adultery, problem pictures, and the erotic.
Romantic views of castles in the mountains from Carl Friedrich Lessing, and more accurate accounts by Gustave Courbet and others.
Split a block of rock, craft your sculpture, break stones to dress the roads, be a blacksmith, sharpen your scythe, forge iron, or operate on a leg with your hammer.
Come walk in the blustery breeze of autumn/fall, with Hokusai, Clarkson Stanfield, Ford Madox Brown, Courbet, Millet, and others.
Loyal unto death, dogs as companions to knights, bored Venetian ladies, successful artists, royalty, nude women, and Marthe Bonnard.
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