Equestrian paintings of those who followed George Stubbs: Théodore Géricault, James Ward, Horace Vernet, Eugène Delacroix, and Edgar Degas.
Delacroix
In Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, animals charmed by Orpheus, the story of Rebecca and Eliezer, and accompanying the three Magi to the Nativity.
Medea tricks the daughters of King Pelias into trying to rejuvenate their father, and they end up killing him. She splits up with Jason, then murders their two sons.
After some history paintings, he travelled to Venice, where many of his finest paintings were made. Then he fell ill with TB and died when he was only 25.
He painted successful watercolour views of Paris before he turned 18, and went on to paint across Europe in oils and watercolours that had great influence.
Of all Ovid’s Heroines, the most successful, as she both survived and got her revenge on the treacherous Theseus.
Paintings of Istanbul and its surroundings by GĂ©rĂ´me, Delacroix, Richard Dadd, Ivan Aivazovsky, and Alberto Pasini up to 1877.
Some of the very few paintings that show what’s underwater, most usually a drowning woman like Shakespeare’s Ophelia.
Charon ferrying the dead to the Underworld, and rarely back again, Psyche in her quest, the centaur Nessus, and lots of sheep and cattle.
Delacroix as a pioneer of Orientalism with his paintings of Morocco, based on his visit in 1832. Then MariĂ Fortuny, war artist there in 1860.
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