Juana the Mad, who refused to let her husband be buried, resurrection of the drowned, funerals in the Carpathians, and fear of being buried alive.
history of painting
Juno won’t let the labour of Hercules’ mother progress, so one of maids tricks Lucina into allowing the infant’s delivery, for which the maid is turned into a weasel.
Louise Upton Brumback moves from the harbour to the beaches, and with Marsden Hartley visits the abandoned settlement of Dogtown.
Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Homer, Willard Metcalf, Frederick Childe Hassam, and Frank Duveneck.
Middle class collectors came to like paintings of interiors, sometimes without any figures at all. Others were Orientalist, or told open-ended narrative.
A prolific painter of everything from landscapes to mythology, he trained in Karlsruhe, travelled widely, but struggled to establish his art in the years to 1885.
Human in their upper body, and fish from the waist down, these aren’t sirens at all, but have their own mythology in many traditions.
When the centaur Nessus tried to abduct Hercules’ wife, he was impaled by an arrow. He set up the later death of the hero, who was destroyed by poison in his own arrow.
Examples of interiors by Gerard ter Borch, who liked open-ended narrative, Gabriël Metsu, Pieter de Hooch, and Jan Vermeer.
Wedding paintings by Rubens, Watteau, Delacroix, Frith, and Naturalists from the time that photography was creating a new market.
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