How the RĂĽckenfigur passed from Friedrich via JC Dahl to Thomas Fearnley, then was reborn with Gustave Caillebotte.
history of painting
Figures in landscape paintings don’t normally stand with their back to the viewer. How the RĂĽckenfigur came to the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and his pupil Carus.
Bierstadt, who went west to the Rocky Mountains with surveyors, the former Surveyor General of New Zealand, and the greatest expeditionary botanical painter, Marianne North.
Associated with Dionysus/Bacchus and his followers, it’s basically a staff decorated with plant matter. Seen here in different variants from Pompeii onwards.
If David’s neoclassicism emphasised form or ‘disegno’, Delacroix was a colourist. Shown here in details of his paintings.
How Uther Pendragon, King of England, came to father Arthur, how Merlin arranged for hi
Paintings by Chassériau, Franz von Stuck, Lovis Corinth, and Félix Vallotton telling this story.
Paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Jordaens, Coypel and an unusual watercolour on ivory by Goya, telling this story.
Paintings from 1400, including Tintoretto’s masterpiece, Veronese, and three by Artemisia Gentileschi, telling this story.
The Grand Tour traditionally took young gentry through the Alps, where they could buy paintings of its sublime peaks.
The Eclectic Light Company 