Paintings from Rembrandt’s second version to Cézanne and Franz von Stuck show the triumph of privileged male power.
history of painting
Paintings of this story from Hans Memling to the first of Rembrandt’s show Bathsheba bathing in the foreground while the king looks on as voyeur.
For a decade from about 1658, his indoor figurative paintings show soft and blurred edges. Establishing the optical basis for this is key to understanding.
Bastien-Lepage, Regnault, Pelez, Debat-Ponsan, Buland, Dagnan-Bouveret, Gervex, and Friant: best in their class, and highly successful pupils.
Paintings of alpine meadows, often used as summer grazing in the transhumance. Men from the lower valleys took their livestock up to the plateau to graze for the summer.
Although not featured in classical myths, cats have several symbolic associations and their own fables. From a kept woman to a harem, and basking in the sunshine.
Sir Lancelot joined the Knights of the Round Table shortly before King Arthur defeated the emperor of Rome. He was then abducted by Morgan le Fay.
More gold grain crops and sunsets from Samuel Palmer and his mentor John Linnell during the middle of the nineteenth century.
Gold of ripe grain crops and gold of rich sunsets are distinctive of the paintings of Samuel Palmer and his mentor John Linnell. Here are works from Palmer’s time at Shoreham.
The human visual system seldom sees blur, and the great majority of paintings don’t show it either. This series explores the use of blur in paintings.
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