Second and concluding article, including paintings by van Gogh, Chase, Monet, Pissarro, CĂ©zanne and others.
history of painting
The first of two articles about painting trees, featuring Rubens, Poussin, Gainsborough, Constable, Corot and others.
Charon ferrying the dead to the Underworld, and rarely back again, Psyche in her quest, the centaur Nessus, and lots of sheep and cattle.
The consequences of pride, when all 14 of Niobe’s children are slaughtered by Apollo and Diane, but she’s unrepentant to the last.
First wife of Jason of the Golden Fleece, abandoned when he went off on his quest and married Medea. He came to a sticky end, though.
Coastal landscapes from Claude in 1639, through visits to the island of Capri, to Étretat and Monet’s series, and Divisionists in the Midi.
Paintings of the Grindelwald Glacier, and various Norwegian landscapes, he died of typhoid when he was only 39.
A Norwegian landscape painter who trained with JC Dahl in Dresden, and who shared themes with the German Romantic painters.
In their heyday, worked elaborately in gold leaf, but lost with the realism of the Renaissance. Revived by the Pre-Raphaelites, and rarely used for secular figures.
How Arachne came to a weaving contest against Minerva, but told the truth about gods and goddess, so was turned into a spider.
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