Eduardo Zamacois y Zabela - Spain 1812, French Occupation [1866]
Two Spanish partisans struggle to dispose of the corpse of a French cuirassier (cavalry soldier who wears a breastplate) by dumping it into a well. The old woman at the entrance carries the helmets and...
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View ArticleAntoine Léon Morel-Fatio - Taking of the Citadel at Saigon, February 17, 1859
Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (Rouen, January 17, 1810 - Paris, March 2, 1871) was a French naval painter. Morel-Fatio travelled in Italy and Orient, learning painting. In 1830, he was with the French fleet...
View ArticleAnselm Feuerbach - The Symposium (Second Version) [1871-74]
Anselm Feuerbach (Speyer, September 12, 1829 - Venice, January 4, 1880) was the leading claccicist painter of the German 19th-century school. He was steeped in classic knowledge, and his figure...
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View ArticleDiego Velazquez - Three Musicians [c.1618]
In this painting three young men are grouped around a table eating, drinking and playing music, with intense contrasts of light and darkness around the figures. The light falls from the left, creating...
View ArticleMaster of the Dresden Prayer Book - The Temperate and the Intemperate...
The Memorable Deeds and Sayings of the Romans, a compilation of stories about ancient customs and heroes written in the first century A.D. by Valerius Maximus, was widely used in the Middle Ages as a...
View ArticleJan Steen - The Tooth-Puller [1651]
[Mauritshuis, The Hague - Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 26.7 cm]
View ArticleCamille Pissarro - Tuileries Gardens [1900]
The opportunity to view the city from his own windows, from a fairly spacious, and highly elevated, apartment, gave the painter great advantages. In 1898, he rented an apartment across from the...
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View ArticleRolph Scarlett - Untitled (Abstract Composition)
A creative force with a restive, probing mind, Scarlett (1889 - 1984) worked in a variety of artistic fields before becoming a full-time artist. He started-out as a jewellery designer, specialising in...
View ArticleJan Breughel the Younger - Venus at the Forge of Vulcan
Through its overflowing detail, the mythological story here serves the greater goal of presenting the industry of metalwork, and Antwerp’s role as a mercantile hub in particular. Polished armour,...
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View ArticleJoseph Mallord William Turner - View of the Pont Neuf, Paris
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas]
View ArticleGeorges Maroniez - Waiting for the Fishing Fleet to Return [c.1900]
Georges Maroniez (Douai, 1865 - Paris, 1933) was a French painter. He was interested in photography and invented the first hand camera, then a second even more simple, the Sphynx, which he patented in...
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View ArticleSong Yuanyuan - Wide Perspective [2011]
Song Yuan Yuan was born 1981 in Shen Yang where he still lives and works today. He graduated from the Photography Department of Lun Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. After studying photography, Song...
View ArticleLouis Valtat - The White Mouse [1893]
The fresh and vibrant colours foreshadow the artist’s later foray into Fauvism, a movement which indeed found its origins in the art of Valtat and similar painters who adopted the use of strong colour...
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View ArticleFranz Defregger - The Tyrolean Salon [1882]
[Alte und Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas]
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