The Raft of the Medusa shown at the Salon, then the following year in London, and again in Dublin. The start of his search for a successor theme.
history of painting
A selection of his early paintings, and an account of the year he spent preparing and painting his masterwork, the Raft of the Medusa.
Mountain people painted in the late 19th century: Hutsuls by Axentowicz and others, and those of the Engadine by the stateless Segantini.
Paintings of telescopes less then ten years after they became available, as symbols of mariners, and microscopes in medical research around 1900.
Jupiter wipes out unworthy humans in a flood. One pious couple survive, and go on to re-create humanity transformed from stones. This leaves the monstrous Python to be killed by Apollo.
From Delacroix’s final Shipwreck off a Coast, through Aivazovsky’s Ninth Wave, to Waterhouse’s painting of The Tempest.
From Tintoretto in the 1560s, through the canonical Raft of the Medusa by ThĂ©odore GĂ©ricault, to Delacroix’s Shipwreck of the Don Juan.
After Church painted the Andes, Albert Bierstadt travelled with surveyors to the Rockies in 1859 and 1863, from where his paintings are awe-inspiring.
Badminton, tennis, rowing regattas and races, and boxing, pictured by George Bellows, Alfred Sisley, Thomas Eakins and others.
Hyacinthus killed by a discus, a couple married as the result of a running race, funeral games, Roman spectacle, and the games of childhood.
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