Putting Degas’ many paintings and drawings of the ballet and its dancers into context – here are contemporary paintings.
Degas
The evolution of her painting in oils and pastels, and the start of her print-making – which was to become so important in her later work.
In the years to 1879, she became skilled in different media, including pastels, and her style transformed to Impressionism.
Classical history paintings are rarer than those of myth. Even fewer show the most anomalous of classical societies: the Spartans.
Music and musicians have been very popular themes for paintings since before the Renaissance. How successful are they in evoking our auditory imaginations?
There are many important anniversaries to celebrate in paintings this year: here are some tasters.
Moreau’s extraordinary paintings have been described as Symbolist, Decadent, even Surrealist. They are notoriously difficult to read – here is some help.
He built his career from scratch three times, but today is known for his paintings of fashionable women. There is more to his art than that.
In his later works, he turned to biting satire of the courts, artists, and even their dealers. His was a very different form of Impression.
An Impressionist, whose incisive drawings and paintings were often controversial – and now almost forgotten.
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