Declining health, tuberculosis and riding accidents, but he still painted the Epsom Derby, Mazappa, and ten portraits of those with psychiatric illness.
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Henry Fuseli, Ary Scheffer, Botticelli, William Blake and other artists paint the ghosts in Shakespeare’s plays and other literary sources.
The greatest bard, musician and poet in classical Greek myth. Paintings from Paulus Potter, Poussin, Jan Brueghel the Elder and others.
Overview of David’s Neoclassicism, his teacher Guérin, the influence of Constable and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, his friends, and rival Ingres.
A selection of paintings of Yoric (Hamlet), Touchstone, and Shakespeare’s other fools, and a few from others including the great Polish Stańczyk.
Greatly influenced by Corot, he painted landscapes in Impressionist style from his studio in Biarritz, but was isolated from Impressionism.
First of two parts telling the classic story of the jealousy of sisters, plots, betrayal, and the troubles of old age, with plenty of fine paintings.
From sacred symbols in a mosaic of Theodora and the Adoration of the Lamb, to roadside watering holes, and the town’s fresh water supply.
Examples from Wright of Derby, Turner, Millet, van Gogh, Bonnard and others. But how many used the monochrome of scotopic vision?
Does analysis of literary plots offer anything to the understanding of visual narrative in painting? A journey through some of the best painted stories in quest of the answer.
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