Landscapes featuring women washing linen and clothes from Isabey, Jongkind, Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Sisley and others.
history of painting
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, she started painting First Nations totems in 1907, and decided to document them on the NW coast.
Religious paintings of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, and charitable saints, before all changed in the 19th century..
Myths of Perseus and Atlas, Philemon and Baucis, and the peasants of Lycia teach the ancient code of hospitality to strangers.
King Nisus’ daughter betrays her father and his kingdom to King Minos of Crete. Theseus kills the Minotaur kept in the labyrinth on Crete, then abducts Ariadne to Naxos, where he abandons her.
Did Sappho really throw herself from the Leucadian Cliff when she was jilted by Phaon the local ferryman, or was Ovid ridiculing the story?
Her studies of light moved indoors, using the shadows of kerosene lanterns, and depicting women in church.
Scathing satire from Honoré Daumier and Jean-Louis Forain, together with view of the Old Bailey, a Norwegian magistrate, and a German court lit by candles.
The stories of Cambyses the corrupt judge, Phryne charged with impiety, the judgement of Solomon, the Tichborne Trial, and several others.
One of Norway’s most famous artists, a pioneering woman painter and influential teacher. Exploring the play of light on interiors and more.
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