A portrait with unusual references, many bravura watercolours of Venice and his travels through the Alps on the way, and a short visit to North Africa.
history of painting
Aeneas’ ill-fated and brief affair with Queen Dido of Carthage, past the Cercopes who had been turned into monkeys, and on to the Sibyl to take him to visit his father in the underworld.
With Frits Thaulow in Norway, van Gogh in Arles, the construction of what is now the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and what can happen a railway carriage.
Taking the train with Turner, William Powell Frith, Manet, and Claude Monet, who became something of a railway buff in the 1870s.
Originally the toilet, this is where ladies prepared themselves for the day. Paintings from Hogarth. Degas, Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard and others.
Spanish dancers, Madame X and scandal, Monet painting at Giverny, loose oil sketches, and a husband who became a surrogate dog.
Early paintings from his time as a student in Paris, a series painted when he was on Capri in 1878, a portrait of his teacher, and exotic smoke.
From Dürer’s groundbreaking hare to the fable of the hare and the tortoise, a hidden hare in a well-known Turner and a white rabbit for the first of the month?
Scylla accosted by the grotesque sea-god Glaucus. When she runs away from him, he seeks the help of Circe, only for her to turn Scylla into a pack of hounds, then into a hazard to navigation.
As winter grew colder, Parisians started to starve. A city known for its food and restaurants had to scavenge meals based on horse, dog, cat and even rat.
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