The origin of werewolves, early psychiatry, colourful Venice, a coast of foreboding, a brilliant plein air nocturne, London’s best paintings, visual truth, and more.
van Gogh
Stories of the origin of the Italian pine and cypress trees, and a far more dubious account of Jupiter’s abduction that’s found in an advert for beer.
Beauties by William Holman Hunt, Gustave Doré, Bruno Liljefors, Vincent van Gogh, Odilon Redon, Richard Dadd and others.
The humble vegetable that enabled Europe’s population boom in the 19th century. When diseased by blight, it resulted in more than a million deaths.
Paintings of fields of buckwheat (not a cereal at all), sainfoin (ideal for horses), flax (oil paints and linen), and clover. And how the Dutch Golden Age changed its agriculture.
Later landscapes from 1880, by Boudin, Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, and others, prior to their decline in the early 20th century.
Second and concluding article, including paintings by van Gogh, Chase, Monet, Pissarro, CĂ©zanne and others.
From the Dutch Golden Age onwards, they’ve become fashionable for a while. Examples from Whistler, Turner, Kuindzhi, van Gogh, and others.
Some of the many major works from the 19th century, from Caspar David Friedrich, through Turner and Constable, to Paul CĂ©zanne, and van Gogh’s sunflowers.
This is the time to get out and admire the blossom on the trees, with the aid of Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Sisley, and above all Vincent van Gogh.
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