It moved from depicting the rural poor in the countryside, to scientists teaching, a major research meeting, technology in the workplace, and the rise of the clinic in hospital medicine.
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Is it feasible to paint optically accurate reflections quickly in front of the motif? Examples from CamilleCorot, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley demonstrate that it is.
Changes made to the finished version of a painting after its painting has started may be evident from careful examination. Examples from Leonardo da Vinci to Paul Cézanne.
Charles and Ubaldo fly across the Mediterranean in a ship, reach the island where Armida is holding Rinaldo captive in her garden, and ascend its mountain to rescue him.
Lean years in the 1890s, then his resurgence in the 20th century. Views of Baltic wetlands, sea eagles, seabirds, and wild geese.
Origins with Dürer, occasional motifs in the Dutch Golden Age, and Audubon’s birds. Liljefors painting wildlife set in natural surroundings, as works of art.
Inspired by Émile Zola’s novels, Nordic painters including Krohg, and Werenskiold, American Charles Ulrich, Gandolfo in Sicily, and others. How Roll’s painting of a strike led to Zola’s ‘Germinal’.
Increasingly challenging reflections by Caillebotte, Martin Rico, Normann in the Norwegian fjords, specialist Frits Thaulow, and an essay in optics by Kazimierz Sichulski.
Challenging Naturalist paintings with equally challenging readings: a beggar giving his last coin, 5 hardened gamblers in a dive, a young apprentice making a cog, and a council group portrait.
Pairs of oil studies and finished paintings by Rubens, Géricault, Constable, Frith, Seurat, Eakins, Bierstadt and Cross.
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