Although of ancient origin, it took 7 centuries for Europeans to use them to cover the floor. They can be exotic in chinoiserie, luxuriant, worn and threadbare, or vibrant.
history of painting
Curtains around 4-poster beds, revealing hidden opinions, framing a cameo landscape, showing time and place, and in a trompe l’oeil still life.
Curtains in Raphael’s remarkable trompe l’oeil, concealing a nude, opened by the peeping tom, revealing a lost lover, and as separator between players and spectators.
The start of fighting in the Trojan War, how the prettiest girl in Thessaly became its toughest warrior, and the wedding feast that became all-out war.
Paintings by Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, and Pierre Bonnard showing fishing boats, trees and bathers near this smalll fishing village on the Mediterranean coast.
A small fishing village that drew several major painters from about 1892, where they depicted its boats, warmth, trees, light and bathers. From Paul Signac on.
Forgotten until revived in 2005, his paintings now fetch millions. Hauntingly empty, almost monochrome, and often with his wife facing away from the viewer.
Giorgione’s Tempest, Cuyp’s Thunderstorm over Dordrecht, Delacroix, a prairie on fire, and viewing lightning safely indoors.
Jupiter’s bundle of thunderbolts that have survived into computer technology, lightning in great floods, in the destruction of Tyre, and the three witches in Macbeth.
Mud during the Franco-Prussian War, in Nordic countryside, and enveloping everything including the dead during the First World War.
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