The anger of Achilles almost brought the Greek war against Troy to a grinding halt. But is Homer’s account fair, or was there more to it?
David
Trained by Laurens at the Académie Julian, he was a superb history painter, quite Impressionist, and a founding father of Venezuelan art.
Another devotional painting, but with a strangely empty landscape background.
The most politically adept artist, David was a leader of the French Revolution, then a friend of Napoleon.
The last of the great classical narrative painters, his huge canvases explored lesser-known tales from Greece, Rome, and Scotland.
Portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Kauffmann, and others show extensive brushstrokes.
Had he been French or British, he would probably have been rated as one of the greatest painters of the 1800s.
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