Ridden by Napoleon, crossing Australian desert, walking on the beach at Aqaba, on the streets of Tbilisi, in North Africa and Arabia.
Pirosmani
With 8 named peaks over 5,000 metres (16,400 feet), this range on the border between Europe and Asia forms a formidable barrier.
Long before they were turned into chocolate, they were coloured, and hunted on Easter Sunday. Paintings by Claude Monet, Diego Velรกzquez, and others.
Some quite sophisticated compositions, featuring an early gramophone, feasting, the railway, and a Russian Futurist who enthused Picasso about his paintings.
After Joseph Stalin, this ‘primitive’ painter is the best-known person from the country of Georgia. Here’s a selection of his paintings of animals, and his biography.
In the year ahead, Gustav Klimt, Ferdinand Hodler, Tintoretto, Egon Schiele, and several others: anniversaries which I will celebrate here.
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