With 8 named peaks over 5,000 metres (16,400 feet), this range on the border between Europe and Asia forms a formidable barrier.
history of painting
Loyal unto death, dogs as companions to knights, bored Venetian ladies, successful artists, royalty, nude women, and Marthe Bonnard.
Dogs guarding the underworld, attributes of Diana, discovering Tyrian purple, gathering scraps under the Last Supper, and telling part of the story.
Sir Tristram and La Beale Isode, or Tristan and Isolde, fall in love and exchange rings. His uncle, King of Cornwall, sends Tristram to bring Isolde back to be his queen.
Paintings from Rembrandt’s second version to Cézanne and Franz von Stuck show the triumph of privileged male power.
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.
The Eclectic Light Company 