Stories involving swimmers, including Hero and Leander, the Ship of Fools, and a poem by Thomas Gray, with paintings by Bosch, Rubens and others.
history of painting
Yellow for harvest at the end of the dry summer. Also mixed with blues and greens, although sometimes not proving lightfast.
An overview of the German Romantic painters including Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl, with links to all the original articles in this series.
Largely restricted among Classical deities to Hermes, Cupid, and personifications of winds, heavenly bodies, and events, the gift of flight extends to angels and even saints.
Humans have always wanted to fly, but Icarus warned us of the dangers. Despite those, Goethe’s Faust, witches, and pioneers with hot air balloons seem to have succeeded.
Superb paintings of the Kintyre coast, on the west coast of Scotland, painted between 1878 and 1897, in his distinctive style.
Second-generation Icelandic painter, who died tragically young at only 32 of TB. Mostly views of Iceland, and religious works.
Sixteen views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, painted between 1745 and 2006, showing where they were painted from.
A Norwegian trained in Düsseldorf, he painted studies in oils in front of the motif, then developed them into finely detailed finished works in the studio.
Just monkeying about in the Dutch Golden Age, with cats in a barbershop, as a sculptor, and the amazing paintings of Gabriel von Max.
The Eclectic Light Company 