An overview of the German Romantic painters including Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl, with links to all the original articles in this series.
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Largely restricted among Classical deities to Hermes, Cupid, and personifications of winds, heavenly bodies, and events, the gift of flight extends to angels and even saints.
Humans have always wanted to fly, but Icarus warned us of the dangers. Despite those, Goethe’s Faust, witches, and pioneers with hot air balloons seem to have succeeded.
Jason is given three tasks, in which he is aided by Medea the sorceress. First he yokes a team of fire-breathing bulls to plough a field, then sows dragon’s teeth, before the prize of the Golden Fleece.
Superb paintings of the Kintyre coast, on the west coast of Scotland, painted between 1878 and 1897, in his distinctive style.
Second-generation Icelandic painter, who died tragically young at only 32 of TB. Mostly views of Iceland, and religious works.
Sixteen views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, painted between 1745 and 2006, showing where they were painted from.
A Norwegian trained in Düsseldorf, he painted studies in oils in front of the motif, then developed them into finely detailed finished works in the studio.
Just monkeying about in the Dutch Golden Age, with cats in a barbershop, as a sculptor, and the amazing paintings of Gabriel von Max.
In some of the earliest European paintings, the Fall of Man, the fable of the cat’s paw, in Vanitas paintings, and for their mischief and mayhem.
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