Geelong lad Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) studied at the National Gallery School of Art in Melbourne from 1884-7. In summer 1886 he painted with Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts in Mentone. In 1887 he camped and painted with Louis Abrahams, Tom Rob...
Tissot, Bad News/The Parting, 1872, 69x91 cm. National Museum Cardiff Jacques Tissot (1836-1902) fought in the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris, as part of the Paris Commune. His 1870 art evoked the period of the French...
In the Christian tradition, journeying was associated with conversion: all pilgrim roads potentially led to Damascus. All Christians were stained with sin in his life, but individuals’ motives for going on pilgrimage differed from person to p...
The term Grand Tour first appeared in the Voyage or a Compleat Journey through Italy 1670, by Frenchman Richard Lassels. Published in London, the book became a guide for scholars, artists and art collectors who were planning...
Cecil William Baldwin (1887–1961) was born in Melbourne and trained at the Burnley School of Horticulture, working as a landscape gardener until the outbreak of WW1. Cecil enlisted in the 40th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Forces an...
Born in 1907, Magdalena Frida Kahlo grew up in Mexico City in a blue house/Casa Azul built by her father. Father Guillermo Kahlo was a German-Jewish photographer and mother, Matilde Calderón, indigenous and Catho...
Knight, The Fishing Fleet, 1900 Boston Museum & Art Gallery.Knight, The Boys Newlyn Cornwall, 1909, Johannesburg Art Gallery.Barbara Morden’s book dealt with the British artist born to the impoverished Johnson family.