Added to portraits to indicate the sagacity of the subject, owls were dear to the heart and brush of Hieronymus Bosch.
history of painting
Symbols of the night, and through association with Athena/Minerva, for wisdom and learning. Owls in paintings to William Blake.
How many verbal stories or movies tell dozens of different stories? Here are paintings that are not only so rich in narrative, but tell all those stories at the same time.
A friend of Spencer Gore and Charles Ginner, he painted interiors, portraits, and landscapes, which were originally made in front of the motif.
Paintings of iron and steel production, printing, lead mining, machining a cog wheel, spinning, and developing a photograph.
Claude Bernard, whose 1865 book on experimental physiology was popular with Zola and many artists, two scientists who drew the structure of the brain and more.
Sancho’s first duties as governor include a series of disputes to settle, and he shows the wisdom of Solomon. His master doesn’t fare as well when he’s attacked by a cat.
Includes some of the 20 lithographs he made for a limited edition of August Strindberg’s autobiographical novel ‘Inferno’, published in 1920.
Introduced to Europe from the New World in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I loved them, and Jan Brueghel the elder and his son included them in many of their paintings.
In the latter half of 1912, his style became overly Fauvist and was also influenced by Cubism. A move back to London brought a reversion, though.
The Eclectic Light Company 