Early landscapes constrained the sky to a backdrop. With Rubens and the Golden Age landscape painters it became the subject in its own right.
history of painting
He resumes his travels, visiting Istanbul, Greece, Italy, then Algeria and Spain. Wonderful watercolours from there and at home in Sweden.
Christ judges Adam and Eve for their sin, Satan transformed into a dragon, and Sin and Death unleashed on man.
Nine daughters of Mnemosyne representing each division of the classical arts. Paintings from Raphael to Moreau.
Paintings of people watching plays, by Daumier, Degas, Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and others.
Paintings of scenes from plays by Degas, Seurat, Georges Clairin, and others.
Some artists not only spoke out against slavery and racism, but painted about it. Here’s a small selection of works by Turner, Eakins, Tanner, Biard and Morland.
From the early landscapes of Rubens and Dutch masters to the surrealist skyscapes of Paul Nash, introducing a history of painting the sky.
A brilliant watercolour painter as a student, he made a success of portraiture in Sweden and London. His early career to 1885.
The climax: Satan enters the serpent, and tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Adam and Eve are undone.
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