Well known from language, the scarlet woman should be easy to read in paintings. But all that is scarlet isn’t who you’d expect.
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From his first sally alone to be dubbed a knight by an innkeeper, to his ignominious defeat by the Knight of the White Moon on Barcelona beach, and his death.
More gorges from Edward Lear, Frederic Church, Signac, Thoma, Hodler and others, from the Alps to Iran.
Declared sublime, and named after the throat, they’re painted from the mid-18th century. Works by Wolf, Turner, Ward, German Romantics and more.
Youngest of the four women French Impressionists, she died first, and was probably the most prolific. Only known now from the portrait of her painted by her teacher, Manet.
The River Seine at Samois, near Fontainebleau, including a steamboat, the River Verdon flowing through the gorge at Castellane, and Mirabeau Bridge in Paris.
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.
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