One of the charges leading to Joan of Arc being burned at the stake was that she cross-dressed in male military clothing.
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The curious myth of the swashbuckling hero Hercules dressed in women’s clothing and forced to serve Queen Omphale.
Trained in Kyiv, Kraków, and with Matisse in Paris, he is best known for his virtuoso Impressionist oil sketches.
The river runs red with the blood of Trojans before Achilles gets his chance to fight Hector, and kills him. Then he dishonours the Trojan’s body.
John Crome, a quiet innovator and founder of the Norwich School, Frederick Sandys, Thomas Girtin and others in Norfolk and Lincoln.
From Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, via the wooded countryside of Gainsborough and Constable, to the coast of Philip Wilson Steer.
Key factors making oil paint most suitable include its slow drying, wide range of viscosity, and robust paint layer. But it has its rules too.
Depicted as a physical place full of demons, torment and eternal suffering, and a deterrent to all those who commit sins on earth.
Christian visions of Heaven or Paradise are usually less of a location than an array of figures. Examples from 1475-1916.
Although born in Russia, he moved to Kyiv in 1877, and for 30 years was a key figure in art education there, teaching several of the important painters from the early 20th century.
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