Bacchus granted him the boon that everything he touched turned to gold. When that proved disastrous, his power was washed away, but he then offended Apollo and was given the ears of an ass.
history of painting
Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, and others of these popular gardens in the centre of Paris.
Paintings by Watteau, Manet, Adolph Menzel, Claude Monet and others of these popular gardens in the centre of Paris.
A grand castle kitchen, the element fire, Vermeer’s milkmaid, a witch’s kitchen for Faust, a rotund cardinal tasting the sauce, and in a humble apartment in London.
A deer substituted for the sacrifice of Iphigenia, as companions for the sorceresses Medea and Circe, in Bonnard’s rural idyll, Rosa Bonheur’s wildlife portraits, and others.
The bard is torn limb from limb by frenzied bacchantes, leaving his head and lyre to float down the River Hebrus and over to the shores of Lesbos.
Further collaborations with Rubens, including one of the finest series of paintings in the European canon, the Five Senses, from 1617-18.
Son of Pieter the Elder, brother of Pieter the Younger, and father of Jan the Younger, collaborator with Rubens and others in some of the finest paintings of the 16th-17th centuries.
With Bonnard inside Marthe’s bathroom for some mirror play, exuberant decor, and her soaking in the tub.
From his first intimate interior with Marthe in 1898, a selection of the finest of Bonnard’s paintings of domestic interiors to 1946.
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