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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Achilles’ ghost demands the sacrifice of Hecuba’s daughter in appeasement. Hecuba then blinds Polymestor for killing her son. Finally Aurora laments the death of her son Memnon.
In the early years of the 20th century, Sorolla started painting well-dressed young ladies strolling along the beaches of his native València.
Sorolla’s paintings through the 1890s showed the hard and dangerous lives of the fishermen who worked from the beaches of València.
Laundresses who collect clothes and linen from homes, launder and press them, and return them for a pittance. Seamstresses working long hours with an uncertain future.
Small clocks inside glass bell cases on the mantelpiece, and longcase clocks ticking away the time as items of furniture. But these are rare examples until the 20th century.
Fashionable hats and milliners by Georges Clairin, Edgar Degas, Jean BĂ©raud, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot and Henri Gervex.
The origin of the conical hat worn by Jews. and that worn by dunces. Cavaliers and Roundheads, crowns and mitres, the cardinal’s red biretta, and Dante’s chaperon.
Alax and Ulysses vie for the arms and armour of the dead Achilles. The Greeks enter Troy and start its destruction, killing King Priam and the infant Astyanax.
Femme fatale, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, she was the lover of Isabella d’Este’s husband, and inspired portraits until Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1871.
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