In 1808, Napoleon invaded his former ally, and Goya started work on his harrowing series of prints ‘The Disasters of War’. Dark visions also filled his paintings.
history of painting
Contents giving the periods covered, artists, and a representative painting also provide an over view of over 5 centuries of painting.
Don Quixote is brought down from the mountains, only to run into further trouble at an inn. Eventually he’s tricked into being taken by oxcart back to his village.
From 1826-1835, Samuel Palmer painted in solitude in a tumbledown cottage in rural Kent. His paintings from that period share a unique vision of an enchanted countryside.
In just a few years of painting, he made two of the major Pre-Raphaelite landscapes, but died of dysentery in Cairo at the age of only 35.
From around 1884 until after the First World War, he painted a series of Impressionist landscapes. Was he one of the British Impressionists?
Three times Hodler was the centre of controversy: ‘The Night’ was rejected then removed from display; two large and wonderful murals were also savaged by the critics and the emperor.
The period up to 1808, in which Goya painted many portraits of the rich and famous, and those who could hardly pay, and the story of a friar and a bandit.
An unusual but apparently addictive theme for still life paintings: fish, from Chardin’s ray to the performative art of William Merritt Chase.
Contents, summary and a selection of paintings for the first half of the first book, from Don Quixote being dubbed a knight, to his rescue from the mountains.
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