The late Middle Ages saw many more frescoes and panel paintings survive, and tell stories in greater detail.
realism
Thanks to painstaking work in the Mouton-Rothschild Collection, a new artist is being added to the canon of Impressionists.
A fuller account of one of the arch-enemies of the Impressionists. Was he so bad after all?
Taking stock on which narratives should be used, and what techniques should be used to represent them in paintings.
This excellent book is not to be rushed: the delight is in its detail.
It is time to abandon the prejudices of Ernest Fenollosa, and recognise Japanese yoga painting.
How a small group of Dutch merchants were able to bring Western influence to Japanese painting during the Edo period.
This first stage of Western-style painting created religious works in the missions, and secular painted screens by established Japanese masters.
Ellen Altfest paints the real world, a morsel at a time. Her paintings are both very modern and deeply traditional, and absolutely magnificent.
As the Masters in the South got to grips with linear perspective, those of the Northern Renaissance explored the new medium of oil paints and their power in representing surface textures and the effects of light. This remarkable work is a landmark in the development of Western painting, and an early triumph of realism, which opened the way for landscape as a new genre.
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