Two unusual treatments of popular myths, an enigmatic series of the personification of Truth, two religious works, and a work that inspired Surrealists in the 20th century.
history of painting
Paul CĂ©zanne led the way in Aix-en-Provence, followed rapidly by Renoir, Signac, Cross, Luce, van Rysselberghe, and Pierre Bonnard.
From Friedrich’s ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Mists’ to Carl Friedrich Lessing’s ‘Silesian Landscape’, figures with their back to the viewer.
Waved by Circe and Medea, later in Tasso’s ‘Jerusalem Delivered’, and by Morgan le Fay in Arthurian legend. Paintings by Poussin, Waterhouse and others.
Tulips to mark a stock market crash and recession, David’s lust for Bathsheba, his work as a sculptor, Pygmalion and Galatea, and a summary of his career.
For a couple of summers, she visited the Nordic Impressionists at the artist’s colony in Skagen. Her painting of their card game is her outstanding work.
More sinister and ‘Gothic’ landscapes from one of the leaders of the DĂĽsseldorf School, and last of the German Romantics.
Poussin, Church, Grimshaw, Peterssen, Bierstadt, Turner, CĂ©zanne, Klimt and Hodler paint lakes.
When the nymph Salmacis falls in passionate love with the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, he resists, and they are joined together in single body.
Sorolla’s White Slave Trade, a mother’s adultery and break up of her family, the awakened conscience offering redemption, or destitution.
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