Around 1616, Rubens painted a series of Hunts featuring lions and tigers. Delacroix love these and in 1855 painted his own Lion Hunt. But neither had ever seen anything like this.
history of painting
Five of the narrative 22 paintings he made for the ceiling of the library in the Palais Bourbon.
How truth is associated with a well, where Jesus spoke with a Samaritan woman, where to dispose of a rapist, and one of Paul Signac’s less successful paintings.
Born in Ukraine, started his training there, trained in Saint Petersburg and then in Paris. But he died in Finland, and didn’t return to Russia after the 1917 Revolution.
Aeneas flees the burning city of Troy with his wife, father and young son. But his wife falls back and is lost. He builds ships and sails on to Delos.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, leading portrait painter and founding President of the Royal Academy, was born 300 years ago. He was the most influential British artist for over a century.
From Manet’s remarkably early painting of a cyclist in 1871, to cycling café scenes in Paris around 1900.
In his quest to emulate masters such as Rembrandt and Titian, Reynolds experimented in the preparation and application of his paint, to the detriment of his paintings.
A landscape, Roman history, Orientalism, a scene from Scott’s Ivanhoe, a crucifixion, and more scenes from Byron.
The punishments of Sisyphus, the Danaïds, Ixion, Tityus, Tantalus and Ocnus told in paintings by Titian, Claude, John Singer Sargent, and others.
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