Beauties by William Holman Hunt, Gustave Doré, Bruno Liljefors, Vincent van Gogh, Odilon Redon, Richard Dadd and others.
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Associated with the fire of the underworld, painted into life by Jupiter, attracted by Psyche, hunted on expeditions, in vanitas paintings, or just for their beauty.
Paintings of the wild and undeveloped country in Shinnecock when Chase was teaching summer classes in the closing years of the 19th century.
He was invited to teach hundreds of students attending a plein air art school each summer. For 12 consecutive years he taught and painted in the east of Long Island.
Studio interiors from John Ferguson Weir, Cézanne, Bazille, William Merritt Chase, William McGregor Paxton, Olga Boznanska, and Carl Larsson.
From the Middle Ages, strictly regulated for trade between producer and consumer, then dominated by increasingly rich merchants and middlemen.
The Roman goddess Minerva, the Greek statesman Solon, King Solomon, the three Magi, a ‘philosopher’ of Enlightenment, a scientist with a microscope, and the School of Athens.
A member of many of the royal courts of Europe, and featured in several of the plays of William Shakespeare, a jester and entertainer.
The first transformed into a Lotus Tree for picking lotus flowers; the second dissolved in her own tears to become a spring; the third changing gender in time for their wedding.
His narrative series continued in London, with veteran’s stories, a social gaffe, a modernised version of the prodigal son, and the modern woman in Paris.
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