The story of Dibutades who painted the outline of her boyfriend’s shadow, leading to early struggles with the optics of cast shadows, their use as cues to depth and shape, and appearance in landscapes. Paintings of shadow play.
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Piero della Francesca’s common walnut tree, several types by Giorgione, mixed woodland by Albrecht Altdorfer, wonderful examples from the Brueghels, and two plein air oil sketches by Velázquez.
Full table of contents, from introduction and watercolour to vast canvases and Edgar Degas.
After feasting with Achelous, he got involved in the battle between Lapiths and centaurs. then struck disaster with incest, suicide and violent death, before abducting Helen, and being thrown from a cliff.
One of the four great ladies of the Impressionist movement, she was born in Pennsylvania, then moved to train in Paris. She joined the Impressionists in 1877, and soon adopted the style in her painting.
In the early 1920s, he painted myths, then developed his near-Surrealist fantasies with fruit, flowers and birds. The spent much of the next decade back in Europe, before returning to settle in the Bronx.
He emigrated from Italy to the USA in 1896, where he was trained by William Merritt Chase in New York. He returned to Italy in 1909, adopted modern style, and returned to the US in 1912.
The devil’s darning needles have had a bad press, and appear in just a few paintings. Here’s a vanitas still life, a meal for chaffinches, and some stranger associations.
Humans have lived with trees since our origins, and trees feature in many paintings. This explains the importance of sketching them from life, and shows examples of different species and contrasting artists from Rubens and van Ruisdael to van Gogh and Cézanne.
Two groups of paintings: figures seen mostly in planar mirrors arranged vertically, and landscapes reflected by a horizontal water surface.
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