William Merritt Chase’s leafy suburb of Brooklyn in the late 1880s, Robert Henri’s Ashcan view of busy streets in the snow, and the first of Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers.
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Interior design by the wives of Carl Larsson (Sweden), LA Ring (Denmark), Nikolai Astrup (Norwegian) and others.
Ploughing, sowing, weeding, calving and lambing, the hay harvest, sheep shearing, the grain harvest, fruit harvests, then back again to the start.
William Penn’s treaty, Peace and War just before the Franco-Prussian War, its Armistice in 1871, and finally paintings of the end of the First World War and the original Cenotaph in London.
Allegories using classical deities, by Tintoretto and Rubens. Accounts of how the Sabine women brought peace to Rome, and peace treaties of Charlemagne and Barbarossa.
Stories of the origin of the Italian pine and cypress trees, and a far more dubious account of Jupiter’s abduction that’s found in an advert for beer.
A popular theme for paintings only after Keats’ poem was published shortly after his death in 1821. A gruesome love tragedy beloved of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Many wonderful paintings of the opening scene of this short story, but none even hints at its real plot involving three abductions and two murders.
A dramatic family break-up, Norwegian light and music, a library, ornate decor with a bird cage, and a truly avant-garde interior of 1913.
Self-help thatching and maintaining your scythe, blacksmiths hard at work in their forges, a tilt-hammer in another forge, and a tinker fixing pots.
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