Her paintings became sought after, and her themes highly innovative. But a stomach ulcer brought her life to a sudden end.
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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 (MusĂ©e 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.
He painted Paris, its highlife and lowlife, during the Belle Époque, but has been largely ignored by art historians.
The only panel surviving from a triptych. An original composition and almost personal involvement of the viewer.
Unconventional treatments of popular stories, spiritual pain during the First World War, a touch of Blake, and woman murdering woman. Powerful paintings.
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