Struck by a ricocheting discus, the young man’s blood is transformed into hyacinth flowers.
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Two notable paintings about slavery, some genre scenes of travel, and a final expedition to South America.
Official artist to an expedition to Spitzbergen, he drew crowds at the Paris Salon of 1841 with his paintings of walrus fishing and the aurora.
The final few years of his life were highly productive. As well as superb religious works, some secular paintings have also survived.
The story of how a young man inadvertently killed his pet stag, and was turned into a cypress for his grief – and that of others.
A firm set up to provide scenery for the Vienna Opera also brought us two artists: Alphonse Mucha, and Georg Janny. The latter was a pioneer of fantastic or fantasy art.
America’s most promising and successful woman painter of the early twentieth century, with superb Post-Impressionist landscapes and portraits. Now all but forgotten.
One of Ovid’s most painted stories, still popular, with some of the finest depictions by Poussin, Rubens, Corot, Watts, Scheffer, and others.
More heartwarming paintings of this Mediterranean island, from Theodore Robinson, Paul von Spaun, and others.
Escape to the island of Capri, in the Bay of Naples, for a drop of sunshine in these superb paintings by Carl Blechen, Albert Bierstadt, and others.
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