Three brothers discover their unmarried sister’s secret lover. They take him to the country, kill him and bury his body. She exhumes him, and takes his head away to hide in a pot of basil.
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In a myth invented by Piero, a radical annunciation, Pre-Raphaelite religious paintings, William Blake and others who allude to Joseph, the most famous of all.
Ink, soot suspended in water, making the transition from drawings into paintings. The secret of shellac. Casein, originally from sour milk, as a binder in some vast murals.
In the 19th century, literary stories changed with the coming of detective and mystery novels. In the latter half of the century, painters gained fame in problem pictures.
A relatively latecomer, he started painting Pre-Raphaelite landscapes in 1856, with stunning results in the Alps, and his monumental view of Florence, but those proved unsuccessful.
The harrowing of Hell, and the Resurrection in the paintings of William Blake, Jan Brueghel the Elder, William Holman Hunt, and others.
Small clocks inside glass bell cases on the mantelpiece, and longcase clocks ticking away the time as items of furniture. But these are rare examples until the 20th century.
The origin of the conical hat worn by Jews. and that worn by dunces. Cavaliers and Roundheads, crowns and mitres, the cardinal’s red biretta, and Dante’s chaperon.
Paintings by Edgar Degas, John Brett, Alfred Hunt, Giuseppe De Nittis, Marià Fortuny, Renoir, Joseph Stella, and others.
Paintings based on Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, mainly from the Pre-Raphaelites.
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