Paintings by Marie Spartali Stillman, Philip Wilson Steer, Paul Helleu, and William Dyce, and photography by Julia Margaret Cameron.
history of painting
Paintings by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, William Dyce, John Brett, Whistler, Berthe Morisot and others.
Overview of David’s Neoclassicism, his teacher GuĂ©rin, the influence of Constable and GĂ©ricault’s Raft of the Medusa, his friends, and rival Ingres.
Although unusual in paintings, tortoises can have several different readings, from love to slow and faltering political reforms.
Before photography, the only opportunity to see your face, painters took advantage of the Venus Effect to break optical rules and show faces that couldn’t have been seen in the mirror.
Trained at Kyiv Art School, he went to Berlin 1923, and on to Paris a couple of years later. Almost all his known paintings come from the last 6 years of his life.
The Greeks had three objectives: to extinguish the line of succession in the Trojan royal family; to raze the city to the ground; and to seize booty.
With PS Krøyer, Laurits Tuxen, and a British visitor to the artists’ colony at Skagen, Adrian Stokes.
With the Danish and other Nordic Impressionists, Anna Ancher, her husband Michael, and Christian Krohg, in this artists’ colony.
Two of his paintings secured support for Greek independence, another had to be hidden from public view because it glorified liberty, and he was a major influence over Impressionism.
