First of two parts looking at the many great paintings of Andromeda’s rescue from sacrifice to Cetus.
narrative
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.
Preference for water-based paints on paper in Japan allowed artists to show 4 dimensions on a 2D scroll.
He worked as an assistant to Holman Hunt for 15 years, but also painted spectacular watercolours.
We now associate Valkyries with Wagner and the Vietnam War. They actually come from Norse myth, which Arbo specialised in.
Several have had a go at telling this story – Titian, Kauffman, Ricci, Delacroix, and Denis. Do their paintings work, though?
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