Two major works showing the plight of Greeks during their war of independence, first signs of Orientalism, and several literary narratives.
Delacroix
Robin Hood, who robbed the bad to help the poor, and his colleagues William Tell, Oleksa Dovbush and Holger Danske.
Started training in 1815, first commission in 1819, set his sights on the Salon of 1822, and made his name with ‘The Barque of Dante’.
Overview of David’s Neoclassicism, his teacher GuĂ©rin, the influence of Constable and GĂ©ricault’s Raft of the Medusa, his friends, and rival Ingres.
Two of his paintings secured support for Greek independence, another had to be hidden from public view because it glorified liberty, and he was a major influence over Impressionism.
The heavily embroidered story of Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa was turned into a narrative poem by Lord Byron, and inspired paintings by GĂ©ricault, Delacroix, Vernet, and others.
The meaning of one arm raised depends on the position of the fingers: is it an index finger pointing to heaven, or a sign of benediction?
Although not popular on stage, a classical tragedy that attracted paintings by Waterhouse, Delacroix and others.
Paintings of the death of Ophelia, from the first by Delacroix in 1838 to an etching from 1889. The most popular scene which happens entirely off-stage.
From Robert Nanteuil’s first pastel portraits in the 1660s to Ants Laikmaa in 1929, a history of the greatest pastel painters and links to articles about individual artists.
