After some early visits, young landscape painters started to visit the forest in 1829, and became the Barbizon School.
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Lycaon transformed into a wolf, the origin of later werewolves, the she-wolf who fed Romulus and Remus, a shepherd defending his flock, the wolf of Agubbio, the fable of the wolf and the lamb, and others.
Series showing the sailing of smaller vessels, and ship, then a further series of a model getting dressed and leaving the studio, and one last painting.
Unusual paintings to add novelty to a collection, with maritimes, river views, cloudscapes, Amsterdam burning, and a couple of distinctive ‘negatives’.
Painting using a palette knife, by Courbet, Renoir and Anna Althea Hills. fingerpainting by Leonardi, and ling brushes in the hands of Whistler and Sorolla.
Barrators, who traded in public office and bribed courts, hypocrites whose clothes are weighted with lead, and thieves who are stuck in a pit of snakes.
More paintings from Louis Janmot’s epic Poem of the Soul, Walter Crane’s concise Bridge of Life, and a selection from Edvard Munch’s second Frieze of Life, exhibited in 1902.
Series of paintings showing the journey of life are unusual. Here are excerpts from Poussin’s Seven Sacraments, Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life, and the start of Louis Janmot’s 34-image epic.
The star of Bethlehem from Giotto to Blake, a solar eclipse seen in Spain in 1905, Donati’s comet, and two impossible events with the sun and moon together in the sky.
Portraits of his young wife, struggling for survival in the Norwegian winter, bathing a newborn baby, the discovery of America, nationhood and open narrative.
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