Zorn’s finest art seen through his paintings of ordinary people, particularly those of his home town Mora in Sweden.
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Who were the Romans, who built their city and its empire? This series looks at the history of Rome as shown in paintings, starting here with its forefather, Aeneas maybe?
In which the Redcrosse Knight kills the monster Error, then falls prey to the magic of Archimago and into the clutches of the false Duessa.
While others painted near Rome, a slow revolution burned in the north, with Isabey, Daubigny, and most of all Jongkind and Boudin.
In 1911, he sailed to the US to paint its President, the third he had made a portrait of. But less than ten years later, Zorn was dead.
Usually seen with peacocks, she has her work cut out keeping an eye on her husband Zeus and his many adulterous affairs.
More paintings of cypresses by Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Modigliani, and Gustav Klimt.
In the more southern parts of Europe, the tree most strongly associated with churchyards and graveyards, representing grief.
Six books of poetry from 1590-96 telling allegories of virtues such as temperance and chastity, with many fine paintings and illustrations.
A selection of sky-rich oil sketches made in the Roman Campagna during the first half of the 19th century.
