Boat from Rotterdam

Yale Art Gallery, Lady Lever Art Gallery. D


27 May 2012

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The Black Burnswickers [1860]

By John Everett Millais (1829-1896) A young English woman trying to prevent her German lover from responding to his call to arms before the Battle of Waterloo

10 Jun 2008

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Boat from Rotterdam

By J.M.W.Turner, 1775-1851, U.K ycba.yale.edu/education/edu_fellowships.html

27 May 2012

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Judgment at Paris 1825-6

William Etty 1787-1849 In handing the apple to Aphrodite, Goddess of love, in preference to her rivals Hera & Athena, Paris sets in train the evens that will lead to the Trojan Wars. This is Etty's largest and most celebrated history paintings painted for the 4th Earl of Darnley and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826. Etty used as his sources Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving of Raphael's 'Judgment of Paris' and an engraving by John Flaxman from his illustrations to the Iliad