and Ornella Salvadori

and the circumstances surrounding its creation

and African-American avant-garde artists in Los Angeles

Le Gray's work had remained largely unknown by the general public until he was rediscovered in the 1960s and was deemed by connoisseurs to be the Monet of photography

2009) and Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Toronto Press

Joachim Wtewael: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan - Paperback BTS Books and Games and Ornella SalvadoriAnne W. Lowenthal The Dutch artist Joachim Wtewael was a history painter especially admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The J. Paul Getty Museum's Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this unusually demanding medium. Though only eight inches high, this Mannerist painting contains eleven figures in three different spaces, captured in a dramatically complex moment from the famous story told by Ovid in his