Do you know the difference between a caduceus and the rod of Asclepius, what each means? Paintings by William Blake, Renoir, and others explain.
history of painting
Contents of this series, together with a list of major Naturalist painters and links to fuller accounts of their paintings.
Little used for 400 years, in the 19th century painters extended their scenes by including reflections seen in a mirror. Here are some significant examples.
From red-figure paintings on Greek pottery, through tin-glazed maiolica, to painted porcelain and enamelled earthenware, more painting in three dimensions.
Born son of the King of Athens, the god Poseidon, and Princess Aethra, his first task was to find his father’s sandals and sword, and take them to Athens, where Medea tried to poison him.
The botanical painter Marianne North, Val Prinsep who was born in Kolkata and painting for Queen Victoria, Colin Campbell Cooper, and Nicholas Roerich, who died there in 1947.
From William Hodges in around 1780, Edward Lear nearly a century later, and Vasily Vereshchagin at about the same time, views of the Taj Mahal and the Himalayan mountains.
Around 1890, two aspiring painters passed through a phase of Naturalism: in Spain, Joaquín Sorolla, and in Sweden, Anders Zorn, both on their way to become masters.
Was it Dante’s Beatrice or Rossetti’s Lizzie? Paintings by Rossetti, Henry Holiday, Marie Spartali Stillman, Odilon Redon and others.
Dante’s beloved Beatrice seen in paintings by Washington Allston, William Blake, William Dyce, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and others.
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