Everywhere else his ideas lay or hung in visible form: his models, drawings, ten-foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days, and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

A poem by Dylan Thomas, a saxophone solo by Charles Parker, a painting by Jackson Pollock -- these are pure confabulations as ends in themselves.

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.

There are 151 items in the Wilmington show, including one painting by each member of the `` Eight '', as well as work by Sloan's friends and students.

When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.

Up on a dune, he saw a girl, all by herself, sitting on a camp stool before an easel and absorbed in her painting.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

History painting | Painting by Jan Matejko | Matejko, 1882.

This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium ( Plato ) | Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home.

Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, history painting by Nikolai Ge, 1871, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

While by 1600 the Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues.

Ildefonso ), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

Triumphus Caesari, by Andreani, after a painting by Mantegna

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

" Gideon thanks God for the miracle of the dew ", painting by Maarten van Heemskerck ( Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg )

" Gideon thanks God for the miracle of the dew ", painting by Maarten van Heemskerck ( Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg )

During the last months of his life Thomas Doebele and Maarten Schmidt made a documentary film about him entitled Constant, Avant Le Départ (" Before Departure "), which features unique footage of Constant working on his last oil painting Le Piège ( The Trap ).

* Hard-edge painting: Theo van Doesburg

In addition to going to the coronation, he made excursions to Cologne ( where he admired the painting of Stefan Lochner ), Nijmegen ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Bruges ( where he saw Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges ), Ghent ( where he admired van Eyck's altarpiece ), and Zeeland.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

However, Abraham van Calraet could also have used the same initials to denote a painting.

Saint Boniface ( c 680 – 750 ), Pope Gregory I ( c 540 – 604, r. 590 – 604 ), Adalbert of Egmond ( 8th century ), and priest Jeroen van Noordwijk, depicted in a 1529 painting by Jan Joostsz van Hillegom, currently on display at the Frans Hals Museum.

He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the " northern realism " of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.

Knighted cavalry and noblemen, painting by Jan van Eyck ( ca.

* The Deposition ( Rogier van der Weyden ), an oil painting, c. 1435

This painting by the Workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, depicts St. Jerome in his study.

Jan van Goyen would begin a painting using a support primarily of thin oak wood.

A 17th century painting of Dutch explorer Joris van Spilbergen meeting with King Vimaladharmasuriya in 1602.

Peter Paul Rubens shows the moment when the horrified Scylla first begins to change, under the gaze of Glaucus ( c. 1636 ), while Eglon van der Neer's 1695 painting in the Rijksmuseum shows Circe poisoning the water as Scylla prepares to bathe.

* Rogier van der Weyden ( 1399 / 1400 – 1464 ), considered one of the greatest exponents of Early Netherlandish painting.

* Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn finishes his painting " The Night Watch ".

Facio records that van Eyck was a learned man, and that he was versed in the classics, particularly Pliny the Elder's work on painting.

In 1913, van Meegeren gave up his architecture studies and concentrated on drawing and painting at the art school in The Hague.

After completing a painting, van Meegeren would bake it at to to harden the paint, and then roll it over a cylinder to increase the cracks.

The work he hung and displayed in his home included a plaster bust by Rodin, a painting by Gauguin, a drawing by van Gogh, and Cézanne's Three Bathers.

In Lucas van Leyden's 1520 painting " Lot and his Daughters ", Biblical Sodom is depicted as a typical Dutch city of the painter's time

The Great Assembly of the States General, in the Great Hall of the Binnenhof ( painting by Dirck van Delen, 1651, formerly attributed to Bartholomeus van Bassen ).