Eugène-Louis Boudin The Beach at Tourgéville-les-Sablons 1893. National Gallery, London.
Les mer»Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Annunciation. 1860. St. Columba’s Church, Topcliffe, Yorkshire, UK.
Les mer»Nathan Altman Material Painting Still Life with a White Jug. (1919) The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Les mer»John Bettes A Man in a Black Cap (1545) Tate Gallery Bettes is first recorded carrying out decorative work for Henry VIII’s court in 1531–3, and he may have worked with Hans Holbein The Younger, the most famous Tudor painter. Originally this portrait was larger, and would have had a blue background similar to the […]
Les mer»Johan Zoffany Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Match circa 1784-6. Tate Gallery This picture shows an unruly sporting event at the court of the Nawab (governor) of Oudh in northern India. It highlights the looser moral codes of colonial life. In Britain, cockfighting was frowned on as cruel, but in colonial India the ‘normal’ rules of morality […]
Les mer»Frank Auberbach: The Sitting Room 1964 Tate Gallery Auerbach spent many evenings with his friend and frequent model, Stella West in this sitting room. The earthy colours generate a sense of warmth and intimacy. Stella appears in profile on the left, leaning forward. Across the room, her daughter is seated in a chair beside a […]
Les mer»Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527=1593) Air, Basle, Switzerland.
Les mer»Albrecht Dürer St. Jerome in the Wilderness (1495) National Gallery, London, UK
Les mer»Nathan Altman Still Life Colored Bottles and Planes (1918) The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Les mer»Gustav Klimt Sappho (1888-90) Historical Museum of the City of Vienna.
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