Once the mark of rural poverty, thatched roofs were common throughout the countryside of Europe. Here are some up to the 1890s.
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From the Pontic Steppe came many of our languages, domesticated horses, the wheel, and these landscape paintings from the 19th century.
One of a group aiming to create a national Swedish art in the mid-19th century, he painted Norse myths in the period 1846-50.
A unique visual encyclopaedia featuring more than a hundred proverbs, followed by a similar compendium of children’s games.
A pupil of Sickert, his painting are high in chroma and influenced by Post-Impressionism. He has sadly become largely forgotten today.
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In the previous episode, Sancho Panza made up for his lunchtime starvation by eating voraciously at dinner. It […]
From 15 minutes to sketch a passing thunderstorm in oils, to more than a year for several masterworks of the 19th century.
He spent much of the war on the Danish island of Bornholm, planning a series of paintings about death and resurrection. He died young, a century ago today.
Born into poverty in Stockholm, he worked as an assistant to Carl Larsson before training in Sweden and Paris. One of the fathers of Modernism.
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