The wanderer with his back to the viewer takes on new life with Thomas Fearnley. Is he the artist’s alter ego?
Friedrich
Wanderers, wayfarers and pilgrims have walked across continents in search of wisdom, spiritual enlightenment, or a bite to eat and sheltered sleep.
From the early landscapes of Rubens and Dutch masters to the surrealist skyscapes of Paul Nash, introducing a history of painting the sky.
Ten paintings, some very famous: can you work out which show dawn, and show dusk?
From Byron’s Faustian play ‘Manfred’ to the effects on family of the Crimean War, his paintings were often richly narrative, and only gently Pre-Raphaelite.
From 1643 (Claude Lorrain), through Claude-Joseph Vernet and Turner to JC Dahl two centuries later.
Escorts of valkyries, the bird of the gibbet, and seeker of carrion: crows and ravens are associated with death, magic, and more.
A succession of impending landscapes which culminate in ‘Villa by the Sea’, a mysterious Mediterranean view. An early symbolist?
Examples from William Blake, Caspar David Friedrich, Delacroix, and an enigmatic painting of Wales.
Friedrich, Turner, Palmer and Bonnard are among the artists shown, with surprises by courtesy of CĂ©zanne.
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