The final article in this series looks at Augustus and Cleopatra, the emperor’s patronage of Virgil, and how Ovid’s own legacy has been transformed in paintings.
Gérôme
The story of the assassination of the dictator, told by William Blake, Gérôme, von Piloty, and others.
We don’t know their names as well, but we know the faces and bodies of those who model for artists. They achieve some kind of immortality.
One of the first international superstars, she was an accomplished painter and sculptor herself. Here’s her life in portraits by her friends.
With costume and clothing his fascination, his work spans genres and styles, from the fashionable and facile, to his good friend, the actress Sarah Bernhardt.
Paintings of odalisques, slave markets, and Turkish baths became popular in the nineteenth century. What was the Orientalist fantasy, and why?
Exposure to colour was, for centuries, determined by class. The poor lived in largely drab worlds, but the rich surrounded themselves with vivid hues. This all changed in the late 19th century and the 20th.
An unusual transformation, from statue to person, which has been widely retold. A superb series from Burne-Jones, more from Gérôme, and Regnault – fine paintings.
For his first decade as a professional artist, he painted narrative works and portraits. Here are some of his little-known narrative paintings.
In the years to 1879, she became skilled in different media, including pastels, and her style transformed to Impressionism.
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