David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Nov 24, 2009, 12:39 pm
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (1887) by the French academic painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). Cleopatra is depicted as a beautiful but also a cold and cruel monarch. Without a...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Nov 22, 2009, 11:14 am
The French painter Evariste Vital Luminais (1821-1896) who preferred subjects from the barbarian period of French history depicted here a scene from the Merovingian period. The tortured sons of Clovi...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Nov 19, 2009, 11:37 am
Wine of Tokai The beautiful and seductive spirit of wine shows here the Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896).
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Nov 17, 2009, 1:47 pm
The American painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928) was specialized in oriental subjects. Sometimes he added further a historical scenery. These two paintings underline the success of this meth...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Nov 15, 2009, 1:15 pm
The Woman, the Man and the Serpent (1911) by the English painter John Byam Shaw (1872-1919). Despite many are assigning Shaw to the Pre-Raphaelites, I would like to call him a symbolist because he was...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Nov 11, 2009, 10:43 am
Echoes of Roncesvalles (1890) by the Spanish painter Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840-1924). This painting refers to the battle of Roncesvalles in 778, where Charlemagne's rear guard was annihilated ...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Nov 9, 2009, 1:34 pm
Nice bathing scene by the Victorian artist John Reinhard Weguelin (1849-1927). Weguelin did similar neo-classical subjects like Edward Poynter and Lawrence Alma-Tadema in watercolour.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Nov 7, 2009, 1:40 pm
The crowning of Olav I Tryggvason of Norway (1860) by the Norwegian painter Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831-1892). Arbo was a romantic painter who specialized in historical and mythological subjects. Here h...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Nov 4, 2009, 1:35 pm
Elizabeth Thompson, later Lady Butler (1846-1933) was not only one of the few female painters in Victorian Britain, she was moreover probably the only female war painter. John Ruskin Britain's lea...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Nov 4, 2009, 1:22 pm
A pin-up of 1952 by the British illustrator David Wright (1912-1967). Wright was probably the only Non-American pin up artist who was really successful in the United States. And he deserved it as far ...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 31, 2009, 1:45 pm
Some Angels, Nymphs or Goddesses by the Austrian painter Hans Zatzka (1859-1945). One of the typical Neo-Rococo sceneries which made Zatzka so successful.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 31, 2009, 11:52 am
Heads of the Rebel Beys at the Mosque of El Hasanein (1866) by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904). Gérôme mixed oriental and historical subjects. Probably he depicts the end of a ...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 27, 2009, 10:43 am
Bathsheba (1820-25) by the German painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794- 1872). Even though Schnorr is assigned to the Romantic the painting shows a strong neoclassical influence.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 26, 2009, 2:28 am
At the beginning of the 20th century history painting was out of fashion. It’s kind of realism was displaced by modern art. Sure that there were some incurable epigones, but really good artist paint...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 23, 2009, 12:12 pm
Silver (1886) by the English classical painter Albert Joseph Moore (1841–1893). Moore was specialized in beautiful young women in a classical backdrop.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 22, 2009, 11:25 am
Napoleon's First Sight of Moscow by the British military painter Laslett John Pott (1837-1898). Pott shows the false triumph of Napoleon, the elusive relief of his exhausted men. On the horizon i...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 20, 2009, 12:41 pm
Susannah at Her Bath; (1874) by the French academic painter Hugues Merle (1823-1881). Merle was a friend and rival to William Bouguereau. Here he presented a nude as the classical biblical subject.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 19, 2009, 1:42 pm
The glorification of the past by the Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). Alma-Tadema visited the ruins of Rome and Pompeii and revived them in his paintings. But it’s not only a reanimati...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 15, 2009, 12:19 pm
Hussite Sermon (1836) by the German romantic painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808-80). Lessing depicts here the revolutionary Hussites as an idealized example. They are demanding a reform of the Cath...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 14, 2009, 11:35 am
Reclining Nude by the French academic painter Delphin Enjolras (1857–1945). Enjolras is best known for his intimate portraits of young women illuminated by lamp or firelight.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 10, 2009, 1:46 pm
El ultimo suspiro del moro (1892) The Spanish painter Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (1848-1921) is relating here a nice anecdote about the fall of Granada in 1492. When the Sultan Boabdil, the last Moor...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 10, 2009, 1:18 pm
A Harem Dancer by the French artist Georges Jules Victor Clairin (1843-1919).
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 6, 2009, 11:36 am
Two more paintings by the great Polish artist Józef Brandt (1841-1915). He was glorifying the great past of Polish history in the 17th century. Return of the Cossacks (1894) Battle over the Turkish...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 5, 2009, 12:26 pm
An Odalisque French painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911).
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 2, 2009, 1:44 pm
An Egyptian Princess (1875) by the Austrian painter Hans Makart (1840-1884).
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 2, 2009, 2:08 am
The Boyhood of Raleigh (1870) by John Everett Millais (1829–1896). Millais depicts here Sir Walter Raleigh, the best known English explorer of the Elizabethan age. But he didn’t show him on board...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 28, 2009, 1:41 pm
A Harem Beauty by the Italian art deco painter Mario Borgoni (1869-1950). One of the better orientalistic ones.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 28, 2009, 12:36 pm
At the end of the 19th century Nordic mythology became more and more fashionable. For one part this was because the European nations were looking for their own cultural roots. But a much bigger influe...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 25, 2009, 1:03 pm
Caius Marius Meditating in the Ruins of Carthage (1807). The American painter John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) shows here the Roman general and politician Caius Marius in his exile in Northern Africa. Upon...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 25, 2009, 1:02 pm
A real powerwoman by the American artist and illustrator Robert McGinnis (born 1926). McGinnis is famous for his illustrations of over 1000 paperback covers.
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 20, 2009, 1:40 pm
One more sweet little girl by the French artist Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924). Most are variations of the same subject.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 20, 2009, 12:39 pm
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842-1904) was the most famous Russian battle and military painter. As one of the great representatives of Realism he don’t waste his time in showing glorious cavalr...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 17, 2009, 12:56 pm
Ceres Bacchus and Venus (c. 1613). A great painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 16, 2009, 11:15 am
The Diversion of an Assyrian King (1878) by the American painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928). Bridgman was specialized on oriental and exotic subjects. With good success he mixed both in pa...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 13, 2009, 12:55 pm
The Battle of Hohenfriedberg, Attack of the Prussian Infantry by the German painter Carl Röchling (1855-1920). Röchling was probably the most famous military painter of his time in Germany. He focu...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 13, 2009, 11:53 am
Of Two Devils by the Australian painter Norman Lindsay (1879-1969). Lindsay is one of my 20th century favourites.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 9, 2009, 12:23 pm
The Battle of Hastings (c. 1820) by the British painter Frank W. Wilkin (1791-1842) Although it’s not a really great painting, it’s interesting because it illustrates the first steps and problems...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 8, 2009, 11:49 am
Andromeda and the Nereids (1840) by the French painter Théodore Chassériau,(1819-1856). Chassériau was a Student of Ingres whose classical influence is here evident.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 5, 2009, 1:51 pm
Prince Charles Carlos de Viana (1881) by the Spanish painter José Moreno Carbonero (1858-1942). Even though Carlos de Viana was the eldest son of King Juan II of Aragon and heir to the throne, he wa...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 5, 2009, 1:29 pm
Prince Charles Carlos de Viana (1881) by the Spanish painter José Moreno Carbonero (1858-1942). Even though Carlos de Viana was the eldest son of King Juan II of Aragon and heir to the throne, he wa...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 4, 2009, 1:46 pm
A really elegant and stylish nude by the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931).
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 2, 2009, 11:55 am
In the 19th century in France Joan of Arc converted into a national hero fighting for the liberty of her country, which means she became the ancestor, the great grandmother of all patriots. In other c...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 1, 2009, 11:34 am
Slave market (1866) by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). Despite all "realism" I'm sure that Gérôme never had seen a scene like this. The examination of the teeth is a nice de...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Aug 29, 2009, 12:22 pm
Rome was the ideal pattern for Empires and because of that there was mostly a close relation in France between French - i.e. Napoleonic history - and ancient Rome. So the French needed much more time ...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Aug 28, 2009, 2:29 am
The Pearls of Aphrodite by the british Victorian era painter Herbert James Draper (1863 – 1920). Draper was specialized in mythological scenes and mermaids, so here he combined both.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Aug 26, 2009, 12:49 pm
On the first look it seems to be a normal religious painting, a crucifixion. But after a few seconds you will notice the other crosses more in the back. And maybe then you will remember that you have ...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Aug 23, 2009, 12:24 pm
The Nereids (1902) by the French painter Gaston Bussière (1862-1929). Once more Bussière shows some of his beloved exotic dancers. So it's more a Paris night club scene and nothing mytholocical...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Aug 21, 2009, 11:38 am
The photo "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal is probably the most reproduced photograph of all time. It was the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for P...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Aug 20, 2009, 1:19 pm
Biblis (1884) by the French academic painter William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). Biblis fell in love with her twin brother Caunus, who fled from her. She followed him throughout Asia Minor until ...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Aug 17, 2009, 10:32 am
Execution Without Hearing Under the Moorish Kings in Granada (1870) by the French painter Henri Regnault (1843-1871). One art historian wrote about this painting, that "the painter had played with th...
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