Churchyards and graveyards in the darker side of French history, in Egypt, and in deep countryside by the fjords of Norway.
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More newsworthy paintings from Sisley, war artists including Henry Tonks, Edvard Munch, and court artists.
Children playing, amateurs rehearsing, music outdoors, and Schubert himself at the piano: paintings by Manet, Degas, Thomas Eakins, Édouard Vuillard and others.
Paintings by Velázquez, Manet, Renoir, Sorolla, and others.
Mud as painted in the Danish countryside, and in Norway. But the last word goes to war: both in the Franco-Prussian and First World Wars.
The 1890s saw an unexpected number of paintings of this civil war. Were they Republican or Royalist statements?
In 1914, after a career painting the rich and famous, he became a war artist. For the next 4 years he showed what the Great War really looked like.
Royal portraits and history of the rich and famous – and a single gruesome work showing an episode now considered by some to be genocide.
A century ago, the Great War ended. Here are some great paintings from war artists like John Singer Sargent and Paul Nash, and others like Lovis Corinth.
Louis Blériot’s flight across the Channel of 25 July 1909, then the First World War. Aircraft became popular subjects for paintings. With John Singer Sargent, Paul Klee, and Paul Nash.
