A personal choice of ten of the most wonderful paintings by artists from Ukraine, selected from the 8-month series of articles published here last year.
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The wedding feasts of Peleus and Thetis, Pirithous and Hippodame, Perseus and Andromeda, and a more peaceful banquet thrown by Achelous.
The Last Supper, Veronese’s series of New Testament feasts leading to his appearance before the Inquisition, and Belshazzar’s Feast.
Paintings from Norway to California, from Nikolai Astrup, Ants Laikmaa, Lovis Corinth, George Breitner, George Clausen, Paul Nash and Colin Campbell Cooper.
Early paintings of the Nativity from 1263 to 1504, from Duccio, Robert Campin, Petrus Christus, Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo.
How the tradition of Christmas trees is relatively recent, family scenes of celebrating the day before Christmas, and how it also became a day to remember the poor and others less fortunate.
Views of France, from the island of Groix in the north-west, to Saint-Tropez in the south. By Signac, Bonnard, Vallotton, van Rysselberghe, and others.
This is the second in my series of articles looking at paintings believed to have been created a […]
Passes of St Gothard, Chalus in N Iran, the Pyrenees, the Vikos Gorge, the Daryal Gorge in the Caucasus, the Simplon and others.
More examples drawn from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and from “The Tempest”, that were exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.
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