What influence did Bosch’s Temptation of St Anthony triptych have on later paintings? Their history traced from 1430 to 1560.
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Never keen on the dramatic or spectacular, many of Tissot’s paintings contain subtle stories. Here are examples from his earlier career.
With his Salon style and fascination in mediaeval history, did he make history painting history?
Telling the complex story of how manna saved the Israelites, and starring the master of narrative painting, Poussin.
Tales of grisly executions, and failed experiments in updating storytelling in paintings.
Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (Musée d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
Unconventional treatments of popular stories, spiritual pain during the First World War, a touch of Blake, and woman murdering woman. Powerful paintings.
A brilliant woman painter, spiritualist, pacifist, and feminist, this tells of her remarkable life, art, and narrative.
Its many intricate details make this the greatest of his early works, a true masterpiece. And it features another owl.
Is video “the best way to tell stories”? Is live-streaming the way ahead for social media? Or is this just marketing hype?
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