Preference for water-based paints on paper in Japan allowed artists to show 4 dimensions on a 2D scroll.
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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?
A Richard Strauss opera, a classical Greek myth, and a painting. Do they tell the same story, and how?
Did this masterpiece of Neo-Impressionism use an old technique from the early Renaissance?
I have several times written that early western painting, until the late Renaissance, not uncommonly incorporated multiple copies […]
An unusually moral story of the classical gods; superb paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Elsheimer, and others.
Looking at the stories shown in the main paintings of the Brancacci Chapel, Florence.
More myths in a single painting than you’ll see anywhere else. But do they come together to form another narrative?
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