Tracing key events in the Kalevala in the paintings of Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
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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?
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.
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