Landscapes by those who visited Scotland, including Rosa Bonheur, Gustave Doré, Hans Gude, and plenty from England.
history of painting
From Alexander Nasmyth in 1785 to Samuel Peploe and the Scottish Colourists of the early 20th century, the Highland and Islands painted by Scots artists.
As he continued to paint history and other narrative works, and turn his watercolours from North Africa into finished oil paintings, he started decorative painting for the State.
From depth cues used by painters in ancient times, through the many advances in the Northern Renaissance, to modern photographic projections.
How the Horn of Plenty came about, who filled it, how it often appears with the four elements, and some more complex mythological associations.
A leader of the avant garde from 1914-30, he developed his treatise on art theory in 1914, and both painted and taught from it in Armenia and Kyiv.
After being entertained by Demodocus’ tale of Venus and Mars, Odysseus is delivered in the dead of night, still asleep, to a hidden harbour on Ithaca.
Cadmus’ daughter Semele is destroyed by Jupiter’s lightning, but her infant grows into Bacchus. Pentheus is then torn apart by bacchantes, and Cadmus and his wife are turned into snakes.
Cadmus, Europa’s brother, kills a dragon and sows its teeth to grow into the men who help him build Thebes. But his grandson Actaeon is killed when he catches Diana bathing.
A history painting of a battle in 1477 was criticised. Then he was taken as artist to a diplomatic mission to Morocco, and turned Orientalist.
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