Poussin, Church, Grimshaw, Peterssen, Bierstadt, Turner, Cézanne, Klimt and Hodler paint lakes.
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When the nymph Salmacis falls in passionate love with the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, he resists, and they are joined together in single body.
Sorolla’s White Slave Trade, a mother’s adultery and break up of her family, the awakened conscience offering redemption, or destitution.
From William Hogarth’s series “A Harlot’s Progress”, to the descent of the seamstress from sewing machine to prostitution. A popular 19th century story.
Thumbs up or down in the gladiatorial arena, French history, the leading general in the Greek War of Independence, and the Wailing Wall.
Painted either from a kayak or canoe, or dependent on gaining access using one. Biard, Frances Anne Hopkins, and the great Tom Thomson.
A younger successor to Caspar David Friedrich, and prominent member of the Düsseldorf School, he was both a Romantic and an influence on the Hudson River School.
European grey herons, seen in paintings by Aelbert Cuyp, Hans Thoma, Daubigny, Frédéric Bazille, Alfred Sisley and others.
Back to the Baltic coast, with landscape paintings by Lovis Corinth, Laurits Andersen Ring, Ants Laikma, and Karl Isakson.
A trip to the Baltic coast, with Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Eugen Bracht, Eugen Dücker, and Carl Irmer’s landscape paintings.
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