The 1000++ Artworks of media Oil and containing the word hans makart, oil, oil on canvas, academicism, gates, royalty, 1875

The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was written in 1863 and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A second, smaller version (85 x 135.9 cm) from ca. 1864 is in the Dahesh Art Museum. The third version (106 x 182.6 cm) dates from 18...

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It is the last and in some ways the most abstract of his many attempts to evoke a story, or conjure a mood, through the depiction of a solitary female figure. Flaming June was painted from life, although the identity of the model who sat to Leighton for the picture remained a mystery until as recen...

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The Birth of Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was written in 1863 and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A second, smaller version (85 x 135.9 cm) from ca. 1864 is in the Dahesh Art Museum. The third version (106 x 182.6 cm) dates from 18...

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Nymph and Fauns, Julius Kronberg’s breakthrough work, was one of the most popular paintings in Sweden in the 1870s. Kronberg had studied in Düsseldorf and Munich and particularly admired the art of Austrian historical painter Hans Makart. Makart’s love of using colour and sumptuous props to bold eff...

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'Clytie' was the second picture of that title painted by Leighton. The nymph Clytie falls in love with Apollo the sun god but is rejected by him. She takes up a position in a remote spot and remains there neither eating nor drinking and drawing her only nourishment from her tears. Day after day she ...

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