An English Frigate In The Bay Of Naples by John Thomas Serres
Figures on a beach near Naples by Giovanni Serritelli
View of Brussels from the NorthEast by Hercules Seghers
Cattle watering in a River Landscape, believed to be Chile by Thomas Jacques Somerscales
The Castle of Ischia by Clarkson Stanfield
Landscape with Rocky Hills and Stream by William Louis Sonntag
Landscape with Waterfall and Figures by William Louis Sonntag
The Tale Of Kynon by George Sheringham
An Extensive River landscape, Probably Derbyshire, With Drovers And Their Cattle In The Foreground by Jan Siberechts
Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames by Jan Siberechts
Art forms defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, including narrative religious mythological and allegorical subjects
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Loading...This oil sketch is a study for a ceiling fresco in the ceremonial hall of the Neuwartenburg palace near Timelkam/Vocklabruck. The palace was built between 1730-32 by the architect Anton Erhard Martinelli (c. 1684—1747) in honour of Emperor Charles VI, who visited Vocklabruck to go hawking.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Well-recognized for his oil-on-canvas problem pictures (a painting with ambiguous meanings) William Fredrick Yeames depicted this picture titled as The Meeting Of Sir Thomas More With His Daughter After His Sentence Of Death in 1863, more than 300 years after the death of Roman Catholic Saint Thomas More. He was imprisoned and later beheaded for the refusal to take oath as per the Act of Succession in declared in 1533. Act described yet unborn princess Elizabeth as the true successor of the crown as the princess Mary was declared a bastard. Thomas More refused to take the oath because he saw anti-papal powers of the parliament about the religion. Sir Thomas’s firm belief brought the imprisonment and later death. As it is depicted here, Sir Thomas’s eldest daughter […]
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Primevera by Sandro Botticelli is one of the most popular paintings by the artist. Another famous art work by the artist is Birth of Venus. It was commissioned by the Medici family. The painting has comprised Greek mythological gods and goddesses at one place. Their placement and convergence in the painting has made many critics and reviewers to come up with the theories and hypothesizes about what the painting really means. Thus, the painting is in the list of some of the most talked and wrote about painting with other paintings like Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Setting It is an orange-grove. In classical art, orange trees are, allegedly, considered as divine or sacred. We can see the ripe oranges in the trees very clearly […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Austrian painter Hans Zatzka is known for painting women in rich environment. His themes varied from mythology to fantasy and sometimes real places. But, his most prolific works represents mythological characters in different sets. The current painting is about the Greek goddess Venus in lying on a ground surrounded by the ‘attendants’. Here, the attendants are the love-angles as the Venus herself is the goddess of love, merrymaking and prosperity. The artist has put her in a surrounding which matches her nature, power and her voluptuous effect in general. The little angles are obviously there of their characteristic resemblances with cupids. Though, they don’t have the bows and arrows of love like cupids but these little angles are as charming and create a sense […]
