Dose of Art #185: Pietro Paolini – Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes (c. 1625 – 1630)
Achilles was the big hero of the Trojan War, but he died at the end of it. His mother, Thetis, […]
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Dose of Art #184: Jacopo de’ Barbari – Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlet (1504)
Used to images as we are, it is easy not to forget the effect a good trompe l’oeil would have […]
Dose of Art #183: Tom Roberts – Shearing the rams (1890)
When you think of Australia, famous paintings are probably not the first thing that comes to mind (sheep might be). […]
Dose of Art #182: Jan van Goyen – Skating on the Merwede near Dordrecht (1646)
It has been so cold the last couple of days that in many parts of The Netherlands people could skate […]
Dose of Art #181: Edward Hopper – Gas (1940)
The descriptions of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) where you can see this painting says it all: This work […]
Dose of Art #180: Jacob van Ruisdael – Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem (1650)
Van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter in the Dutch Golden age and is considered to be the pre-eminent landscape artist […]
Dose of Art #179: Pierre Auguste Cot – La Tempête / The Storm (1880)
Paul et Virginie is a novel by the Frenchmen Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. First published in 1788 it tells the […]
Dose of Art #178: Severin Roesen – Still Life with Fruit (not dated – the 19th century)
Roesen was born in Germany in 1816 and moved to the United States in 1848. He painted over 300 paintings, […]
Dose of Art #177: Rogier van der Weyden – Portrait of a Lady (c. 1460)
Painted on an oak panel, this small painting – 34 × 25.5 cm (13 × 10 in) – shows an […]
Dose of Art #176: Simon de Myle – Noah’s Ark On The Mount Ararat (1570)
This is the only known painting of Simon de Myle, of who we know nothing. It is signed with Simone […]