Lorenzo Lotto: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery c.1527 ibid.
Antonello: Christ at the Column c.1476 ibid.
Caravaggio: Supper at Emmaus c.1601. ibid.
Hunters in the Snow [Bruegel] remains immensely popular with political cartoonists. (Art & Artists: Bruegel) Sister Wendy Beckett, BBC
The Frozen Thames: Abraham Hondius … a confident Dutchman on skates amongst the revellers. ibid.
In the winter of 1800, Napoleon marched his army through these mountains. Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon [Bonaparte] Crossing the Alps … His dramatic and inspirational portrait was designed to put Napoleon up there with the greatest generals of all time. ibid.
Paul Delaroche: Napoleon Crossing the Alps: 50 years later … the metaphor was gone. ibid.
Caspar David Friedrich: Abbey in the Oakwood. ibid.
Handcart: Snow-Covered Road at Honfleur: Claude Monet. ibid.
She seems to be cocoon in ice: Camille on Her Deathbed: Claude Monet. ibid.
The pre-eminent American impressionist Childe Hassam: Winter Day on Brooklyn Bridge: the man who would go to posterity as the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him. ibid.
Over the Top: John Nash. ibid.
Artists: they could make anything they liked of themselves and they did. Laura Cumming, Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits, BBC 2013
A deep truth: the truth of how the artist wanted to be seen and known to the world. ibid.
Durer is the first great traveller in art. ibid.
Rembrandt: a one-man show for our benefit. ibid.
Laura Knight: she’s voting for women’s art. ibid.
David: brought low by his own revolution. ibid.
The mirror: the artist’s secret accomplice. ibid.
Warhol’s self-portrait 1963-4 showed his two-tone face ... Warhol: a ghost in the mechanised process. ibid.
All a self-portrait can ever be is an illusion. ibid.
A world … where art is considered purely decorative and the artist a mere craftsman … This is the story of the private collectors who brought a wealth of treasures from overseas. Helen Rosslyn, Bought With Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections I: The Pioneers, BBC 2013
Just £50 bought a full-length portrait from Holbein. ibid.
The 14th Earl of Arundel, known to history as the Collector Earl … one of the most distinguished patrons and collectors of art this country has ever known. ibid.
Titian would become a passion for Arundel. ibid.
Buckingham went after the big pictures. ibid.
Six hundred anatomical drawings by Leonardo da Vinci bought by Arundel. ibid.
Rubens and his pupil Van Dyck: and it was the Arundels who were largely responsible for introducing these two painters to England. ibid.
The Earl of Pembroke was creating an Italian art palace in the English countryside. ibid.
The Exeters picked up where the Arundels left off … The shock of the new. ibid.
England’s Apollo of the Arts – Richard Boyle. Helen Rosslyn, Bought With Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections II: The Golden Age
[Thomas] Cook’s grand tour lasted six years … The boisterous young Cook was seduced by the art of Italy. ibid.
In a boom year like 1725 the British imported over 750 paintings and 6,000 prints from Italy alone. ibid.
Long before the Impressionists, Canaletto was painting out of doors. ibid.
Richmond commissioned some Venetian views by Canaletto … displayed at Richmond House. ibid.
Canaletto: these are pure cityscapes celebrating the beauty of buildings and the joy of city life. Canaletto showed us that it was quite acceptable to paint places as a subject in their own right. ibid.
Goodwood House: the third duke was quick to embrace the newly popularized sporting portrait. ibid.
In the 1750s the Duke began a palatial new stable block at Goodwood. ibid.
He had also studied anatomy from an early age … his drawings were already being circulated and admired ... Stubbs’ drawings had lifelike accuracy that no other artist had achieved. And in 1759 Richmond gave Stubbs his first major commission. To produce a series of equestrian portraits for Goodwood House ... Stubbs raised the status of sporting painting to become a form of country group portrait. This celebration of rural life heralded a new direction in art … Landscape in its own right. ibid.
The Academy’s first president: Joshua Reynolds … He absorbed the work of the great masters. Reynolds returned to London inspired. ibid.
British artists now enjoyed the recognition and social status they had lacked for so long. And a central space. ibid.
Egremont: he expanded the family collection to over six hundred paintings particularly favouring contemporary British talent … Hundreds of watercolour sketches. ibid.
Joseph Mallord William Turner … Turner was the … first modern artist. ibid.
The role of collectors changed radically throughout the nineteenth century. Helen Rosslyn, Bought With Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections III: The Age of the Individual
Two Welsh heiresses brought Impressionism to Britain. ibid.
[John Julius] Angerstein’s collection … would form the basis of our national gallery. ibid.
Paintings like the Pre-Raphaelites were so popular in the Manchester show. ibid.
Thomas Holloway … didn’t start buying art till he was 81. ibid.
The great European banking dynasty the Rothschilds … A veritable palace to art. ibid.
Gwendoline and Margaret Davies are great example of how private collectors have shaped the history of art of the nation. ibid.
In the twentieth century something strange happened to art. Traditions that had held good for centuries suddenly felt badly out of date. And a new breed of artists emerged to smash them to pieces. Great Artists in Their Own Words I: The Future is Now 1907-1939, BBC 2013
Picasso: It was an expression purely of the moment and the age. ibid.
Magritte: ‘We are all a mystery.’ ibid.
Picasso’s cubist paintings shattered the laws of perspective. His portraits reached new levels of intensity. ibid.
[Henri] Matisse’s new works were great hymns to harmony and tranquillity. ibid.
Matisse: ‘I was happiest when I couldn’t sell my paintings.’ ibid.
Matisse: ‘Without hard work, talent is not enough.’ ibid.
As well as his Fountain, Duchamp selected other ordinary objects, signed them and declared them to be works of art. ibid.
Duchamp’s Fountain had begun a revolution that would become known as conceptual art. ibid.
[Max] Ernst had become deeply influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud: Men Shall Know Nothing of This. ibid.
With films like Emak-Bakia, Man Ray brought his restless experimentation and visual brilliance to bear on this still young medium. ibid.
L S Lowry was born in Manchester in 1887 ... Coming From the Mill & Going to the Match ... ‘I spend the whole of me life wondering what it all means – I can't understand it at all.’ ibid.
Salvador Dali: ‘One of the most important artists of the twentieth century.’ ibid.
Television allowed artists to talk about their work to a mass audience. Great Artists in Their Own Words II: Out of the Darkness 1939-1966
It’s 1939: the shadow of war has fallen across Europe ... For British artists its images of destruction and brutality would provide compelling inspiration. ibid.