Famous Paintings
Édouard Vuillard’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Wallpaper, lamplight, and his mother at her sewing table: ten paintings by the quietest radical of the Paris avant-garde.
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The Most Beautiful Botanical Art Ever Made
Redouté’s roses, Merian’s Surinam pineapple, Thornton’s midnight cactus — eight high points from three centuries of botanical art.
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Frederic Leighton’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Flaming June, Greek myth and Victorian marble: ten works by the only British painter ever raised to the peerage.
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Anders Zorn’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Midsummer nights in Dalarna, Gilded Age drawing rooms, and dazzling watercolors: the ten works that define Sweden’s greatest painter.
Comparisons
Art Deco vs Art Nouveau
One curves and one doesn’t. The full difference between the two styles either side of the First World War — motifs, colors, dates and how to date a piece.
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William Merritt Chase’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Beach days on Long Island, a crowded Manhattan studio, and America’s most dazzling brushwork: ten paintings by William Merritt Chase.
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Jean Béraud’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Wet boulevards, pastry shops, and the crowds of the Belle Époque: the ten works that made Béraud the portraitist of Paris itself.
Movements
What Is Ukiyo-e?
Japan’s “pictures of the floating world” — how the prints were made, who made them, and how to recognize one across a room.
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Maurice Prendergast’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Venetian bridges, Boston beaches and Central Park crowds: ten works by the American painter who turned holiday crowds into mosaics of color.
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Marsden Hartley’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Berlin insignia, Maine mountains, and a red lobster on black: the ten works that define America’s most restless modernist.
Movements
The Hudson River School
America’s first native school of painting: how a young Englishman’s trip up the Hudson in 1825 turned landscape into a national argument.
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Helene Schjerfbeck’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
From a wounded soldier in the snow to the starkest self-portraits in modern art: ten works by Finland’s greatest painter.