Soldiers on the front in the First World War, a young woman slaving as a seamstress, Dickens’ miserly Scrooge, and Polish ‘exiles’ in Siberia – those we should be thinking of this Christmas.
history of painting
Paintings from the late careers of Félix Vallotton, Robert Bevan, Nikolai Astrup, George Bellows, Théo van Rysselberghe, Pierre Bonnard and Lovis Corinth.
Significant paintings based on The Sleeping Beauty, Mariana and Mariana in the South, and Break, Break, Break.
Paintings based on Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, mainly from the Pre-Raphaelites.
One of the most private areas in a house or apartment, shown here by Degas, Maximilien Luce, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Eric Ravilious and others.
Paintings of the Trojan Horse by Lovis Corinth, Vuillard’s lover and her husband, sea eagles chasing an eider duck, and George Bellows’ boxing match.
An association made in a traditional British Christmas carol found only exceptionally in paintings, including two ‘problem pictures’ from the 19th century.
A dark tale of incest, transformation, and obstetrics in the arboretum, leading to the precious resin myrrh, and the birth of Adonis from a tree.
The greatest painter of children, school and childhood in the European canon. Paintings from ‘Les Miserables’ to the classrooms of the Third Republic.
From 1872, as symbolism developed in his paintings. From ‘Death and the Maiden’, through ‘The Poor Fisherman’, to his recurring theme of the Sacred Grove.
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