From the Circus Maximus with its crowd of 150,000 to those walking the tightrope under the canvas of the Big Top.
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When to paint looking into the rising or setting sun, or when to put your back to the sun to show its light cast on a mountain peak.
Five years of some of his most enduring works, including ‘The Stages of Life’, his enigmatic masterwork.
Hatboxes from Shakespeare to the Champs Elysées, the wig-box of hanged highwayman, Dickens’ cashboxes, and the painter’s pochade.
The most prominent in paintings, Pandora’s box was really a jar, and didn’t become a popular theme until the late 19th century.
Left as a cliffhanger ending to Book 2, Jupiter assumes the form of a white bull, and lures Europa to sit astride his back before whisking her away across the sea.
Readily an obsession, as with Titian, de la Tour, Murillo and others, she’s a penitent, while legends take her to France and even Finland.
Although conflated with another Mary, she features in her own right in paintings of the Deposition, as Myrrhbearer, and Noli me tangere.
First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable’s storms, Turner’s vortices, Boudin’s textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash’s imagination.
Despite being one of the leading visual artists of the German Romantic movement, and his young family, he became more solitary, as shown in his paintings.
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