Covering Thor, Odin, Valhalla, Valkyries, Freyja, Loki, and Baldr in paintings.
history of painting
Born in Odesa, he settled to the north of Kharkiv, painting en plein air in a detailed Impressionist style. He had a particular love of wild plants.
Asphalt has been claimed to be responsible for the slow destruction and loss of many paintings, from the ‘Raft of the Medusa’ on. The evidence is tenuous.
Zeus comes up with a plan to reduce the number of mortals, and completes one of the first two steps, marrying Thetis to a mortal. And what a wedding feast, thanks to Eris.
Stories of Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, the miracle of the Gadarene swine, and St Anthony. And Félicien Rops’ ‘Pornocrates’?
Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Morland, James Ward, Gustave Courbet, and others, showing plenty of pigs.
In twenty years, he established himself as a leading figurative painter and portraitist, then was murdered. Now his remaining paintings are under threat.
Series telling the whole Epic Cycle from Zeus’s decision to reduce the mortal population, to the death of Odysseus.
The colours you see in paintings today may have faded badly from their originals. Examples of madder lake, smalt and indigo.
The myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and others, painted by Rubens, Poussin, John Martin, and real floods by Alfred Sisley.
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