Search results for: “Frederic Leighton”
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Edmund Blair Leighton (update)
When I first highlighted Victorian painter Edmund Blair Leighton back in 2006, resources for images of his paintings on the web were pretty thin. Since then, some new images sources have made it much more rewarding to view his work. Leighton’s two main themes were of romanticized medieval subjects — knights in armor, chivalry, elegant…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Cymon and Iphigenia
Cymon and Iphigenia, Lord Frederic Leighton On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art gallery of New South Wales. Victorian artist Frederic Leighton brings his finessed painting skill to bear on a sensual and erotic portrayal of a tale from The Decameron — the famous 14th century Italian…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Garden of the Hesperides
The Garden of the Hesperides, Frederic Leighton, large version here. Original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. See my post on Frederic Lord Leighton.
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Edmund Blair Leighton
There’s just something about knights in armor, fair maidens in sweeping dresses and rough castle walls draped with tapestries that makes for wonderful images; from the finely wrought paintings of the Victorian era through the dramatic illustrations of Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth to highly finessed digital renderings of modern fantasy illustrators. Edmind Blair Leighton…
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Charles Edward Perugini
Charles Edward Perugini (Carlo Perugini) was an Italian/English painter of the Victorian era. Primarily a portraitist, he was a student of Frederic Leighton.
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The Cult of Beauty
That period in British cultural history that is sometimes called the “Gilded Age”, corresponding to the “Belle Époque”, or the “beautiful era” in France, and similar movements in America and elsewhere that we associate with the grace and style of Art Nouveau, the exquisite paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, the drama of the romantic painters and…