Dose of Art #67: Claude Joseph Vernet – Seaport by Moonlight (1771)
Vernet was born in Avignon, France and went to Rome to study landscape and maritime painting. His paintings were mainly […]
18th century
Dose of Art #57: Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat (1793)
The French Revolution lasted from 1789 until 1799. In this very bloody period, France was transforming from an absolute monarchy […]
Dose of Art #51: Canaletto – The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice (c. 1730)
Even in the 18th century, Venice had its tourists; it was one of the must go places for the wealthy […]
Dose of Art #42: William Blake – Newton (1795)
You would think a monotype depicting Newton and made at the end of the Enlightenment is a celebration of scientific […]
Dose of Art #41: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Self-portrait in a Straw Hat (1782)
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun had two things going against her. First of all, just before the start of the […]
Dose of Art #35: John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark (1778)
A scene of an event that happened almost 30 years before Copley painted it. Brook Watson was a 14-year-old orphan […]
Daily Dose of Art #28: Henry Fuseli – The Nightmare (1781)
For us, The Nightmare invokes the relationship of the incubus and the horse (mare) to nightmares. The etymology of the […]
Daily Dose of Art #19: Joseph Wright of Derby – An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768)
A natural philosopher, the forerunner of the modern scientist, recreates one of Robert Boyle’s air pump experiments, in which a […]
Daily Dose of Art #9: Jacques-Louis David – Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe’s Children (1772)
The Greek Gods could be unpredictable and cruel in their actions. When Niobe – daughter of Tantalus- mentioned in a […]