History Painting: “Furor Teutonicus” by “Paja” Jovanović, 1899.
Pavle “Paja” Jovanović was a very successful and prolific Serbian painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. WhileContinue Reading
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History Painting: ‘The Procession Portrait of Queen Elizabeth’ by an unknown artist sometimes attributed to Robert Peake, c.1600-3.
This painting is known as ‘The Procession Portrait of Queen Elizabeth’, and shows the Queen’s very pomp procession en routeContinue Reading
5 Fascinating History Paintings of The Storming of the Bastille.
Whenever you think of the word revolution what conjures up in your mind first? The fall of the Bastille? TheContinue Reading
History Painting: Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Miseno (1785) by Angelica Kauffman.
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Younger, was born in 61 CE in Comum (modern-day Como). AsContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Munitions Girls’ by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, 1918.
Stanhope Alexander Forbes was an influential British artist whose works were well received during his lifetime. He was often calledContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Coronation of Charlemagne’ by Friedrich Kaulbach, 1861.
German painter Friedrich Kaulbach (1822-1903) was best known as a portraitist and historical painter. At the height of his fameContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘A Roman Emperor (Claudius)’ by Lawrence Alma-Taedema, 1871.
The third Emperor of the Roman Empire was a troubled youth named Gaius Julius Augustus Germanicus. We know him betterContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘Barge Haulers on the Volga’ by Ilya Repin, 1873.
A casual search of some of the most physical demanding jobs in history led me strangely to artist impressions ofContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer’ by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1863.
The first truly organised persecution of Christians came after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD under the EmperorContinue Reading
History Painting: ‘The Raft of the Medusa’ by Théodore Géricault, 1819.
The depiction of a group of survivors from the French ship Méduse, which ran aground on the west coast ofContinue Reading
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