Hyacinthus killed by a discus, a couple married as the result of a running race, funeral games, Roman spectacle, and the games of childhood.
Vernet
The fall of Icarus, Raphael’s cartoon of the Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Hodler, Larsson, John Constable and others painting anglers.
What time of day is it? How cast shadows can help or confound, a painting showing Donati’s comet that can be timed precisely, and difficulties with indoor paintings.
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.
