Isn’t it odd to have paintings of gruesome deaths and murder of Trojan captives in your family tomb? A mystery unravelled.
narrative
The late Middle Ages saw many more frescoes and panel paintings survive, and tell stories in greater detail.
The little that has survived is often exquisitely beautiful, and tells the many stories of the Old and New Testaments on vellum.
Concluding the analysis of narrative paintings showing Andromeda’s rescue from sacrifice to Cetus, the sea monster.
First of two parts looking at the many great paintings of Andromeda’s rescue from sacrifice to Cetus.
No other artist was so influential on the last 25 years of painting in the 19th century, although he died when only 36.
Narrative painting was popular and becoming increasingly sophisticated two millennia ago.
Why did no artist paint stories from Dickens and the other popular writers of the nineteenth century?
Tracing key events in the Kalevala in the paintings of Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
Earlier paintings by Ekman, Keinänen, Godenhjelm, and Muukka telling some of the stories from Finland’s national epic.
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