How optical effects familiar from photography became incorporated into Naturalist paintings, and major painters adopted photography as an art form.
history of painting
Raphael’s ten tapestries for the walls of the Sistine Chapel, many cartoons painted by Francisco Goya for the Royal Factory in Santa Bárbara, paintings by Edward Burne-Jones for tapestries woven for William Morris, and more.
One of the founding American masters, sole pupil of the founder of the Hudson River School, his landscapes are meticulously detailed and painted in the studio from many plein air oil sketches.
Suddenly popular in paintings from around 1880, the story of Pandora and her box brought many interpretations, and remains a story of our time.
A strange ancient Greek myth of the creation of woman was hardly ever painted until the 19th century. Even then, only one depicted the crux of the story until it became popular late in the century.
The talaria fashioned from gold by Vulcan for Hermes as messenger of the gods, and lent to Perseus when he was sent to bring back the head of Medusa/
How the introduction of secular, free and mandatory education in the French Third Republic was depicted at the time, from cradle to doctorate.
Unusual use and manipulation of reflections by Ferdinand Hodler in his Parallelism, and by Gustav Klimt painting through a telescope on his summer holidays.
Designs for stained glass windows by Koloman Moser, and paintings of them by Millais, Helleu, Odilon Redon, Sichulski, Lhermitte and Rochegrosse.
Paintings by Helen Allingham, Willard Metcalf, Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Nikolai Astrup, and others.
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