His later years brought one of the few paintings of Nemesis, an influence on GĂ©ricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’, and a portrait of the infant King of Rome.
history of painting
An unconventional portrait of an Empress, who reclines on a stone bench beneath dark trees. She looks pensive if not slightly wistful, and not Imperial in the least.
Can William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Jacek Malczewski or others come any closer to the classical Chimera?
In quest of the Chimera from classical mythology in paintings of Michelangelo, Bosch, de Vos and others.
In his attempts to emulate Rembrandt and Rubens, he experimented with thickened oil paint that has led to poor structural integrity, and severe damage to the paint layer.
From the tribute to a dead colleague, and a record of an important exhibition, to the downright enigmatic embedded paintings of Velázquez, Courbet and others.
Cameo views of landscapes were common practice during the Renaissance, and also had value in locating the primary view.
Born in Izyum, he spent most of his life in Kharkiv after training in St Petersburg and touring Europe and Egypt. Barbizon and Impressionist landscapes.
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Paintings that don’t look like they were intended to be, from Leonardo’s Last Supper, to Manet’s cut-up Execution of Emperor Maximilian.
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