Tag: SCHOOL
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Neapolitan school; Galleon coming out of a port 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #254
Galleon, full-rigged sailing ship that was built primarily for war, and which developed in the 15th and 16th centuries. The name derived from “galley,” which had come to be synonymous with “war vessel”. A high, square forecastle rose behind the bow, the three or four masts carried both square and fore-and-aft sails, and one or…
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UMBRIAN-SIENESE SCHOOL, Paris 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 24
UMBRIAN-SIENESE SCHOOL Paris Oil on poplar panel 48.8 x 28.6 cm.; 19 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. Private collection Paris, also known as Alexander, the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the best known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being…