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.
history of painting
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.
From William Hogarth’s series “A Harlot’s Progress”, to the descent of the seamstress from sewing machine to prostitution. A popular 19th century story.
Thumbs up or down in the gladiatorial arena, French history, the leading general in the Greek War of Independence, and the Wailing Wall.
Painted either from a kayak or canoe, or dependent on gaining access using one. Biard, Frances Anne Hopkins, and the great Tom Thomson.
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