Constable and Turner both paint the burning of London’s Parliament, a scene of a prairie fire in the US, a burning castle in Denmark, San Francisco on fire in 1906, and more.
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Dramatic paintings of towns and cities on fire, usually at night, were popular during the Dutch Golden Age, and known as brandjes. Examples to well into the 19th century.
He meets and becomes engaged to a young student at his art school, painting a double-portrait after Rembrandt, and a raucous collage of human emotion as Ulysses fights the beggar.
Milkmaids milking cows in the shed, a farmer threshing and winnowing grain, churning butter, and a young couple courting by the back-ends of cows.
The scales of justice, prominent on many courts of law, and Vedders’ warning of corrupt legislation, for weighing souls entering paradise, or apples in a Brittany market.
Among the founders of the Berlin Secession, he moved from Munich to Berlin in 1901, after establishing himself as ‘the painter of flesh’ with a brilliant painting of Salome.
In the closing pages of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, he praises the achievements of Emperor Augustus, and hopes for his own immortality.
Paintings by the two Andersens, LA Ring and HA Brendekilde, of small villages in the south of Zealand, and of Roskilde Fjord in the north.
Paintings by JC Dahl, LA Ring, and Erik Henningsen of this large island and its archipelago at the south-west edge of the Baltic Sea.
He moved to Munich, second only to Paris at the time. There he co-founded the Secession, experimented in his painting, and drank lots of red wine and champagne.
