First popular in the Dutch Golden Age, paintings of interiors enjoyed success during the 19th century, when they were favourites of the avant garde.
history of painting
Stories of shape-shifters who could morph readily into animals and even inanimate objects. Includes Proteus, Erysichthon’s daughter, and leads on to Achelous himself.
Paintings by Martín Rico, a Spaniard who painted in Venice ever summer, and died in the city, Renoir, John Henry Twachtman, Frank Duveneck, Boudin, and others.
Landscape and history painter who progressed from realist, through Barbizon to Impressionism, then his views caught fire. Spectacular landscapes indeed.
She continued to paint during the final years of her life, expressing her concern at deforestation. Here are some of her most radical works.
More from Raphael, Reynolds, and the artist’s family of Frédéric Bazille, Lovis Corinth and others. All you need to know is who, where and when.
From Rembrandt to Velázquez, Goya, Courbet and Fantin-Latour, reading group portraits can be complicated and demanding.
Paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington, Edward Lear, JMW Turner, and John Ferguson Weir, during the revival of interest in Venice.
One of the first serious landscape painters in Europe, contemporary and friend of Dürer, and originator of the World View, a precursor to the panorama.
Sculptural form first in the totems of First Nations peoples, then deep in the forest of British Columbia, and seascapes of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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