Tales of knights and doomed maidens, the Lady of Shalott and the quest for the Holy Grail, painted in static tableau.
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Probably his earliest surviving painting, his originality and genius are already starting to shine through its conventional features.
In his later works, he turned to biting satire of the courts, artists, and even their dealers. His was a very different form of Impression.
An Impressionist, whose incisive drawings and paintings were often controversial – and now almost forgotten.
Terms used to describe narrative mode in paintings are confusing. Here is a simpler classification, and clearer terms.
Portraits and more of mysterious beauty and fascination. No quick thrills, but haunting images.
There have been four different readings of this well-known painting. Does any of them work, or should we look to a different account?
You’ve probably heard of him, but can’t recall any of his paintings. Here is a small selection from his more than 2,000 oils.
Did the ancient Etruscans invent the angel, later to be used in Christian paintings?
Isn’t it odd to have paintings of gruesome deaths and murder of Trojan captives in your family tomb? A mystery unravelled.
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