An overview and contents of the articles outlining the history of the Italian Renaissance, centred on paintings from Florence.
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An offshoot of still life paintings of food, it was never very popular, and most of these are decidedly odd. From Jan Brueghel the elder to
He worked intensely on a painting for about three days, then left it, returning some time later. He also had assistants make real-time copies as he painted.
One of the foremost portrait and figurative painters in the US at the end of the nineteenth century, his dominant theme is the ideal woman, with or without wings.
His ‘Heart of the Andes’ was viewed by more than 12,000 when shown in New York. Many of them brought opera glasses to see its fine details.
His working methods were traditional, in making copious drawings and oil sketches in front of the motif, then composing those into large finished oil paintings.
Sancho returns to deliver a letter to Lady Dulcinea and get 3 donkeys, but bumps into the village priest and barber. Together they launch a mission to rescue Don Quixote from his madness in the mountains.
A timeline of milestone paintings, first surviving examples of the achievements of the Italian Renaissance, from 1320-1596.
From 1880, Naturalism showed rural deprivation, but active farmyards with plenty of livestock. Then in the 20th century came the tractor.
Farmyards crowded with people and their animals, from Paulus Potter to some less well-known Impressionists such as Henri Rouart.
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