How woodcut ukiyo-e prints took Europe by storm after the reached Paris in about 1856, and influenced Whistler, De Nittis, Vedder, Zorn, van Gogh and others.
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Axes for human sacrifice, execution, demolition of a bridge to save the city of Rome, as symbols of authority leading to Fascism, and cleaving a hazelnut for fairies.
Wood nymphs or Dryads, with Hamadryads being bonded to a tree. Painting by Evelyn De Morgan, Félicien Rops, Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse and others.
The main driving forces were a rich diversity in both Dutch society and its painted themes, and the popularity of paintings among the republic’s citizens. Visual art thrived.
Three remarkable series: in 1793, painted in oil on tinplate; from 1819 his Black Paintings in oil on plaster on the walls of his villa; in 1824-25 using watercolours on tiny thin slivers of ivory.
Pope Urban II’s plan to maintain the Peace of God calls on the faithful to fight for their lives in Jerusalem. The rival People’s Crusade pillages and slaughters all non-Christians, and few survive by the time they’ve left Antioch for Jerusalem.
Views from Monet’s two visits, in 1871 and 1874, and the common people and places seen by George Breitner, to Max Liebermann’s view of the Jewish quarter.
From major fires lighting the night sky, a vegetable market, the elegant houses of the Golden Bend, City Hall with Atlas above, to the most picturesque synagogue in Europe.
Greatest master in Ancient Greece, but all his works are lost. Several views of him painting Alexander the Great’s former mistress Campaspe, and an elaborate allegory of Calumny by Botticelli.
From the end of the Thirty Years’ War, settlement of Cape Colony, the United East India Company as the largest in the world with a private army of 10,000, Vermeer’s Milkmaid, to invasion by France and decline in 1672.
The Eclectic Light Company 