Painter of history and religious works, his first patron was Alfred Bruyas, who later bought from Courbet. For 25 years he taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
history of painting
Hands are rarely covered in paintings. Examples include outdoors in winter, armoured gloves for crossbows, a sommelier, and fashion.
An outline summary and links to each of the articles in this series.
How Arthur came to be given his sword Excalibur, and how he came to marry Lady Guinevere, who was later to fall in love with Lancelot.
How the RĂĽckenfigur passed from Friedrich via JC Dahl to Thomas Fearnley, then was reborn with Gustave Caillebotte.
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
The Eclectic Light Company 