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Vernet
Paintings by Giorgione, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Elisabetta Sirani, Goya, Horace Vernet, Jules Lefebvre, Klimt, Kolo Moser, and Franz von Stuck.
Rough seas on the Bell Rock with Turner, the Eddystone by Vilhelm Melbye, John Brett’s Longships and more.
From the calm of Vernet’s Italian coast, through Heligoland, to Monet at Honfleur, and the Straits of Bosporus.
Five of the narrative 22 paintings he made for the ceiling of the library in the Palais Bourbon.
Overview of David’s Neoclassicism, his teacher GuĂ©rin, the influence of Constable and GĂ©ricault’s Raft of the Medusa, his friends, and rival Ingres.
Leonardo da Vinci studied different types of shade and shadow, but recommended painters not to depict cast shadows in their paintings. This explains why.
The river runs red with the blood of Trojans before Achilles gets his chance to fight Hector, and kills him. Then he dishonours the Trojan’s body.
Artists started to visit Algeria after the French invaded the country in 1830. Paintings of history, places and some scenes, especially in Constantine.
The heavily embroidered story of Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa was turned into a narrative poem by Lord Byron, and inspired paintings by GĂ©ricault, Delacroix, Vernet, and others.
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