Blue-on-white Delft tiles in paintings of Vermeer, and those in the 19th century who recreated period interiors, including Laura Alma-Tadema.
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Ariadne, Bacchantes, Sappho, Queen Guinevere, Salome and Judith in ecstasy, in paintings by Lovis Corinth, David, Rossetti, Gustav Klimt and others.
Mary Magdalene, Saint Paul, Saint Cecilia, Joan of Arc in paintings by Elisabetta Sirani, Artemisia Gentileschi, Raphael, Annie Swynnerton and others.
Aeneas and his family flee the burning city of Troy, losing his wife on the way. They sail to Delos, where they see the trees that Latona gripped when giving birth to Apollo and Diana.
After his divorce, his son the King of Rome. Disaster on the retreat from Moscow, and exile on the island of Saint Helena. The rapid rise of Napoleon III and his military failure against Prussia in 1870.
Emperor Napoleon I, a Corsican of Italian origin who died on a remote British island in the South Atlantic. Paintings of his early military successes, and the Empress Joséphine before their divorce.
A cheap substitute for tapestries, they came of age in the 19th century when paper could be made in long rolls and colour printing had improved.
More detailed and faithful landscapes of Wales, Scotland, and his native Norway. Teacher of Christian Krogh, Frits Thaulow and others.
Born in what is now Oslo, he trained in Düsseldorf, Germany, and painted faithful and highly detailed landscapes, mainly in his native country.
How expression of pain became stereotyped in narrative paintings from Caravaggio to Böcklin, a very early Rembrandt and the anguish of a ewe on the death of her lamb.
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