Made of almost pure pigment, soft pastel painting didn’t start until after 1650. They excel in representing flesh, so became popular for portraits, and have since extended to other genres.
Le Brun
From the foundation of Troy, the start of the war with the Judgement of Paris, the death of Achilles, the sack of Troy, and Aeneas journey to found the precursor to Rome, and on to the age of Augustus.
After his divorce, his son the King of Rome. Disaster on the retreat from Moscow, and exile on the island of Saint Helena. The rapid rise of Napoleon III and his military failure against Prussia in 1870.
Achilles’ ghost demands the sacrifice of Hecuba’s daughter in appeasement. Hecuba then blinds Polymestor for killing her son. Finally Aurora laments the death of her son Memnon.
More from Raphael, Reynolds, and the artist’s family of FrĂ©dĂ©ric Bazille, Lovis Corinth and others. All you need to know is who, where and when.
Their use by armies of the distant past, in the war against Troy, the sack of Rome, the Battle of Issus, by Alexander the Great, and in Crusades.
Daedalus and son Icarus try to escape the island of Crete by flying with artificial wings. Icarus flies too close to the sun, melting the wax holding his wings together, and drowns.
What happens when a pre-christian hero is elevated to the status of god or goddess. Starring Hercules, Aeneas, Romulus and others.
From Hannibal crossing the Alps with his war elephants, through the temptation of St Anthony, to the circus and an imaginary India.
The Corydon Shepherd, those attending the Nativity, the Good Shepherd, Poussin’s flocks, Millet’s social realism, and Pissarro’s epitaphs.
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