Celebrate the Christmas holiday with a review of many wonderful paintings of snow scenes.
Stillman
Were Pre-Raphaelite landscape paintings just a brief and unimportant, passing phase, or did they have significant influence?
His early paintings were narrative and highly original. From the 1870s they changed, becoming more Aesthetic.
Several Pre-Raphaelites painted this character from a Shakespeare comedy, but as a symbol of despondent isolation. Why?
Towards the end of his career, he campaigned for students at the Royal Academy Schools to have proper life classes with nude models. And a nude got him into trouble.
Her obituary dwelled on grace and charm, dismissing her painting as a leisuretime activity. Here is the last part of her 60 year painting career.
Her time in Florence brought maturity to her work. She then painted a series of major paintings, although you’d be pushed to find any in European collections.
Initially a favourite model, she became an accomplished and original painter in watercolours, whose works were seen across Europe and in the US.
Poussin was by no means the only artist to paint the narrative of Rinaldo and Armida. Here are many more.
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