Some of the many major works from the 19th century, from Caspar David Friedrich, through Turner and Constable, to Paul Cézanne, and van Gogh’s sunflowers.
Turner
Poussin, Church, Grimshaw, Peterssen, Bierstadt, Turner, Cézanne, Klimt and Hodler paint lakes.
How repoussoir originated in figurative painting, and came to become a popular compositional technique for landscapes from Giorgione to Turner.
When to paint looking into the rising or setting sun, or when to put your back to the sun to show its light cast on a mountain peak.
First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable’s storms, Turner’s vortices, Boudin’s textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash’s imagination.
Mountain paintings by JMW Turner, John Ruskin, John Brett, and Georg Janny.
She tricks the daughters of King Pelias to murder him, then flees to Corinth, where Jason abandons her. She murders his bride with a poisoned wedding dress, then kills her two children. After that, she tries to kill the young Theseus.
Cupid gets revenge on Apollo by making him fall in love with Daphne, and she refusing to co-operate. The result is her being transformed into the laurel.
The development of landscape painting of the coast of Cornwall, from the late 18th century, through the Newlyn School, to the 1890s.
From Tintoretto in the 1560s, through the canonical Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, to Delacroix’s Shipwreck of the Don Juan.
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