It has been claimed that he had xanthopsia, tinting what he saw with yellow. While there’s no medical evidence to support that, what his paintings from 1888 tell us?
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A small selection of his instantaneous narrative paintings from 35 years of his career, mainly of Ovid’s myths, and Susanna and Elders.
Austrian artist regarded as important as Klimt at the time. Realist and Naturalist paintings of the Austrian Tyrol, from 1887-1903.
A huge area of ancient mixed deciduous woodland south-east of Paris. Centre of the Barbizon School and an early playground for the French Impressionists who followed.
How the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, heroic commander of the Greeks in the Trojan War, came to murder his mother and her lover, after they killed his father.
In just over a decade, his watercolour landscapes rivalled those of his contemporary JMW Turner. What could he have achieved had he not died at the age of only 27?
How chronic problems with the tear duct of his right eye drove Pissarro from painting landscapes outdoors to painting cityscapes from hotel rooms.
A worked example of Poussin’s instantaneous narrative shows how a single image can tell a story, and examples of the fall of Icarus show the importance of timing.
In older paintings, they’re a symbol of Egypt, but when artists travelled more in the 19th century they became fairly popular in landscape paintings. Examples from 1500 to 1927.
Orpheus’ attempt to take his bride Eurydice back to life from the underworld fails when he looks back at her. He is later torn limb from limb by Bacchantes, and rejoins her.
