The horse fair | Rosa Bonheur | 1855
The horse fair | Rosa Bonheur | 1855 The story of Bonheur has very interesting chapters. She was born in Bordeaux, France, in the middle of a practicing Saint-Simonian family, which is a...
View ArticleThe sower | Jean-François Millet | 1850
The Sower | Jean-François Millet | 1850 Millet was born in 1814 in the village of Gruchy, a peasant community in Normandy, France. As a child, he studied in the local school but, with the guide of two...
View ArticleEn gondol | Johann Julius Exner | 1859
En gondol | Johann Julius Exner | 1859 The Dane Johann Julius Exner is born in Copenhagen in 1825 and, later on, he decides to become an historical painter but, obliged by economic reasons, devotes...
View ArticleThe studio of the painter, a real allegory | Gustave Courbet | 1855
The studio of the painter, a real allegory | Gustave Courbet | 1855 Courbet was obsessed by freedom. He would define himself as an independent spirit and that’s why it isn’t shocking that he would...
View ArticleThe drowsy one | Friedrich von Amerling | 1850
The drowsy one | Friedrich von Amerling | 1850 Friedrich von Amerling was an Austrian painter that, next to Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, is considered as one of the best portrayers of his country. He...
View ArticleOphelia | John Everett Millais | 1852
Ophelia | John Everett Millais | 1852 The painting Ophelia, by the English pre-raphaelite John Everett Mill, illustrates the instant before the dearth of the character, told in the act IV, scene 7 of...
View ArticleThe stonebreaker | Henry Wallis | 1857
The stonebreaker | Henry Wallis | 1857 Wallis subscribes to the English pre Raphaelites, like artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais. Although Wallis was already recognized,...
View ArticleThe Angelus | Jean-François Millet | 1859
The Angelus | Jean-François Millet | 1859 As I have introduced the author of this work in another post, I’m not going to do it on this one. I’m just going to perform an analysis of another of Millet’s...
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