Painted accounts of the great flood from Genesis, by Michelangelo, Elsheimer, Thomas Cole, JMW Turner and others.
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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.
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.
Hippolyta murdered for her girdle, Penthesilea killed by Achilles at Troy, Hippolyta abandoned by Theseus for Phaedra, and Thalestris impregnated by Alexander the Great.
They fought the Greeks in one of the three major wars of ancient times, before that against Troy. Paintings by Rubens, Feuerbach, von Stuck and others.
Millet was a central figure in American fine arts, as well as a painter in mid-century Salon style. When returning from Europe he and his friend died after the Titanic struck an iceberg.
After the death of his patron in 1716 he remained rich, successful, and for the next century his paintings were rated more highly than those of Rembrandt.
His fortunes changed in 1696 with a visit from the Elector Palatine, who became his patron, and six years later made him his court painter.
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