Dose of Art #145: Eugène Delacroix – Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement / Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834)
Delacroix was a Romantic painter with a longing for the exotic. He visited Spain and Morocco shortly after the French […]
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Dose of Art #144: Paolo Veronese – Allegory of Virtue and Vice (c. 1565)
Like yesterday’s painting, this one is dated at around 1565. Veronese placed the story of Hercules -who had to […]
Dose of Art #143: Paolo Veronese – Allegory of Wisdom and Strength (c. 1565)
The description of this painting at a 2006 Frick exhibition read: “A richly dressed female figure — Wisdom — […]
Dose of Art #142: Isaac Levitan – Over Eternal Peace (1894
Levitan was born in what is now Lithuania. Like so many Russian painters he was inspired by the vast Russian […]
Dose of Art #141: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Bonaparte, First Consul (1804)
When Napoleon visited the (Belgian) city of Liege in 1803, it was devastated by an Austrian bombardment. He decreed an […]
Dose of Art #140: Jan Porcellis – Ships in a Storm (c. 1618-1622)
The Netherlands was hit by a severe winter storm today so let’s look at a fitting painting. The Frans Hals […]
Dose of Art #139: Angelica Kauffmann – Self-portrait with Minerva (1780)
Kauffman was a Swiss neo-classical painter who learned to paint from her father. She is known for her history paintings […]
Dose of Art #138: Anton Mauve – Een Hollandse Weg / A Dutch Road (c. 1880)
You have probably never heard of Anton Mauve, yet he gave Vincent van Gogh painting lessons. When Mauve died of […]
Dose of Art #137: Edouard Manet – Devant la Glace / Before the Mirror (c. 1876)
The scandal of painting prostitutes had worn off by the time Manet made this painting. He had already painted two […]
Dose of Art #136: El Greco – Fable (c. 1580)
The Prado (where you can find this painting) describes it as follows: “This scene of a young man blowing on […]