Telling the complex story of how manna saved the Israelites, and starring the master of narrative painting, Poussin.
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Who is the woman martyr being crucified? How do the two wings relate to her story? There’s no shortage of mysteries here.
She succeeded at the highest level in mythology, religious works, and portraiture, and paved the way for other women artists.
Her paintings became sought after, and her themes highly innovative. But a stomach ulcer brought her life to a sudden end.
A brilliant painter who brought wide tonal range and colour to Bologna, and started training many young women.
A close-in view shows Christ and a dozen other figures, but the cross itself is projected unusually.
Tales of grisly executions, and failed experiments in updating storytelling in paintings.
Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (Musée d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
Three saints in Bosch’s fantastic wildernesses show his mature style and unique vision.
If you thought that Klimt was the only important Austrian painter of the 1800s, look here: more radical than even French artists.
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