His magnificent sacred Indian elephant, a polyptych painted over 5 years, an epic overview of Alexander the Great, and his phantasmagoric Jupiter and Semele in full detail.
history of painting
Noli me tangere, Latin from the Vulgate for “don’t touch me”, are the opening words of Jesus when first seen by Mary Magdalene after his Resurrection. Here are the paintings.
Daughter of Jules Breton, a precocious artist who painted mothers and their children, and the fisher folk of the Opal Coast between Calais and Boulogne, and inspired Vincent van Gogh.
Hercules killing the Lernean Hydra, then a series of paintings of Salome that led to the femme fatale and a change in a well-known story. Finally a remarkable painting of Moses before discovery.
How Hogarth developed his painting and print narrative series from rough drawings. Examples of prints made after paintings by Mary Cassatt and Nikolai Astrup for different reasons.
Over 20 years of views over the lake from Hodler, with his Parallelist style, and culminating in some of the most sublime landscapes in European painting.
Paintings from 19th century masters including JMW Turner, the Swiss specialist Alexandre Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and Gustave Courbet in exile.
Early career, including the Judgement of Paris, Hesiod and the Muses, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Jason, Orpheus, and Jupiter and Europa.
It moved from depicting the rural poor in the countryside, to scientists teaching, a major research meeting, technology in the workplace, and the rise of the clinic in hospital medicine.
Is it feasible to paint optically accurate reflections quickly in front of the motif? Examples from CamilleCorot, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley demonstrate that it is.
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