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...de Vinci, dying in the Arms of Francis the First (Figure 3) and Rembrandt’s etching of The Death of the Virgin (Figure 4). Delacroix tilts and raises his deathbed to an exceptional degree, however, so that death completely dominates the surrounding space. In art of an earlier period, this would probably have been attributed simply to a lack of technical competence; see,...

...table in front of him is a carafe of wine and a bowl of fruit; he holds out a glass as if inviting us to join him. The viewer is encouraged to enjoy nature’s bounty and to indulge in sensual pleasure. Increasingly, European artists represented autumn as a pastoral subject, in which rustic figures are shown against the backdrop of nature, not actually working but rather...

...table, and concluding, ‘Nothing was ever half so magnificent. It was in reality all that they try to imitate in the gorgeous scenery of the theatre’ (quoted in Hibbert, 1973, p.371). Byron's friend and fellow radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, by contrast, was predictably outraged by the cost (see Hibbert, 1973, p.374). In the event Carlton House, with its rival...