Two contrasting Virgins of the Lilies, a remarkable scene of the female figure of Death with a fearful gravedigger, a woman poet walking in the Elysian Fields, and other distinctive paintings.
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With ancient origins, and relatively unusual in wooden panels, round canvases became popular in the Renaissance. Examples by Raphael, Poussin, Tiepolo, Girodet, Richard Dadd and others.
Originally a designer of wallpaper and book illustrator, his strikingly original paintings accompany works by Zola and Charles Baudelaire.
Plague ravaged cities across Europe and much of the world, cholera came from contaminated water supplies, then there were influenza and tuberculosis.
Perseus describes in his wedding speech how he beheaded Medusa, and how she came to have snakes in her hair.
From herons flying above the fields and rivers, to the bustling streets of Paris and New York. Then taking to the air among the clouds of war.
Christian visions of Heaven or Paradise are usually less of a location than an array of figures. Examples from 1475-1916.
Surprise, suspicion, and sheer horror in these wide open eyes painted by Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Rubens, Annie Swynnerton and others.
The Grim Reaper, complete with scythe, first appeared in the Middle Ages and became popular in the 19th century. It’s one of the few phrases drawn from visual art.
Churchyards and graveyards in the darker side of French history, in Egypt, and in deep countryside by the fjords of Norway.
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