The River Seine at Samois, near Fontainebleau, including a steamboat, the River Verdon flowing through the gorge at Castellane, and Mirabeau Bridge in Paris.
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David’s Neoclassicism brought uniformity and lack of surface texture. Romanticism followed, with garments dissolving into brushstrokes.
Walkover success in another duel, but Don Quixote changes his mind and heads for Barcelona. After adventures there on a galley, he’s finally defeated on the beach, and obliged to return home.
On the morning of 22 August 1911, he arrived to paint the Mona Lisa, but it had vanished from the wall of the Louvre. Who had stolen it?
Sargent’s paintings of Claude Monet and other artists painting, mostly in front of the motif, form a unique record of painters and their techniques.
Applying his soft pastels to vellum, his paintings are hyper-realist in their fine detail. He was also an eccentric, living mostly in Turkish dress, and a renowned painter of portraits.
More fine views of Saint-Tropez, including a young woman supposedly dying of TB, an industrial Paris cityscape, and an anarchist worker.
Pastellist like Rosalba Carriera led the way in making marks to create the illusion of finely detailed fabrics. This contrasts with smooth and detailed faces.
In some populations, as many as one in ten men has significant colour vision deficiency. What effect does that have on how they perceive paintings?
The pair meet a Duke and Duchess who invite them to stay in their palatial castle so they can play tricks on them remorselessly.
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