From his fine realism of 1858, through sinuous trees above Bordighera, to his first series of poplars near his home in Giverny and on the River Epte.
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Capturing a boar and taking it back to the king, who promptly hid in a bronze jar. Cleaning the Augean Stables in a single day. Killing poisonous birds with his arrows. Capturing the Cretan Bull. Stealing horses that liked to eat people.
Paintings by John Martin, Gustave Courbet, Jules LeFebvre, Georges Lacombe, Gérôme, Edward Poynter, Georg Janny and others.
Paintings by Bosch, Giorgione, Velázquez, Jordaens, Benjamin West, Joseph Wright, Ingres, Ecksersberg, Ary Scheffer and others.
The tale of Nastagio Degli Onesti told in 4 panels by Botticelli, and the 6 paintings making up William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode.
A ship in the Golden Horn of Istanbul, a panoramic market on the waterfront, scenes from Damascus and Turkey, and the ever-present seller of green watermelons.
1. Kill the Nemean Lion, by stunning it with his club then strangling it with his bare hands. 2. Kill the Lernean Hydra, by cutting off its heads and searing the wounds, then removing its remaining immortal head. 3. Capture the Ceryneian Hind.
Kabkabs worn by Turkish ladies in the Hammam, from-frou high heels with pointed toes, red shoes unsuited to the mountains, shiny black patent leather shoes, and kinky black boots.
Sandals worn by gods, notably Mercury, and kings, who hide them under a rock, Toman combat assault sandals, ballet slippers, and wooden working clogs.
Introduction from Roman times through the late Middle Ages into the Renaissance. The main types of visual narrative, why they were so important, and how sophisticated they became.
