Lesson 5 of 12
Lecture 5, Against Nature: Peter Paul Rubens's Hero and Leander
Lessons12 lessons
- 1Lecture 1, Introduction to History Painting
- 2Lecture 2, Unintended Consequences: Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Deianira (c. 1475-80)
- 3Lecture 3, Darkness to Light: Garofalo's The Conversion of Saint Paul
- 4Lecture 4, "But, Lord, He Stinketh!": Marco Pino's The Resurrection of Lazarus
- 5Lecture 5, Against Nature: Peter Paul Rubens's Hero and Leander
- 6Lecture 6, "To Paint the Way the Spartans Spoke": Gavin Hamilton's The Death of Lucretia
- 7Lecture 7, Benjamin West's Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus
- 8Lecture 8, John Trumbull and Historical Fiction: The Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 (1786)
- 9Lecture 9, Find the Hero: Ary Scheffer's The Retreat of Napoleon's Army from Russia in 1812 (1826)
- 10Lecture 10, Handwriting on the Wall: John Martin's Belshazzar's Feast (1820)
- 11Lecture 11, History at the Academy & the Salon: Jean-Léon Gérôme's Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant
- 12Lecture 12, History Painting after Two World Wars: Anselm Kiefer's Die Ungeborenen