This is an early and important work in Delvaux's dream-landscape style. There is a deliberate conflict between the eroticism of the nudes and the uninviting setting into which they have been cast.

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Rubens, an outstanding artist, scholar and diplomat, enjoyed a long, prolific and internationally successful career. He painted themes from the Bible and classical mythology, portraits, landscapes and ...

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Best known as a film-maker and cinematographer, Peat made a series of still images of Glasgow in the late 1960s, in part, to create a portfolio for entry into the film world. These works were ...

Reynolds was particularly skilled at choosing poses and actions which suggested a sitter's character and which also created a strong composition. Here, three sisters, the daughters of the 2nd Earl ...

These remarkable panels formed part of what must have been the most important altarpiece commissioned for Scotland. Incredibly, they survived the Reformation when so many religious images were ...

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Seurat's use of short, unblended, strongly coloured brushstrokes has created a vivid and vibrant work. Distant farm buildings and houses are seen across a field of alfalfa (luzerne), punctuated ...

The American photographer Lee Miller first met Pablo Picasso in June 1937, a couple of months before this portrait was painted during a stay in the south of France. Miller is shown dressed in the ...