Wafted across the rustling waters by spring breezes, the naked goddess alights on shore, long-limbed and emanating beauty that could only come from a more powerful and mythical world. Her arrival on her lovely scallop-shell boat, with her blonde hair flowing about her, signals a new era. She is born

Erotic, Ethereal, Fantastic, Mythic, Playful

Often called "the first of the moderns," Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes trailed legend behind him wherever he went. Even casual acquaintances were struck by Goya's surplus of personality: he was fiercely independent, an amateur toreador, a relentless adventurer, at times a street fighter, and (si

Dark, Fantastic, Intense, Parody, Romantic art, Tense

What would the Baroque have been without Rubens? This dynamo of artistic energy infiltrated all the great courts of Europe, spreading the lush, riotous, regal style that had formed in the wake of the Renaissance. His sprawling canvases depict life on an epic scale, as if he needed extra room to inclu

Baroque art, Dramatic, Dreamy, Ecstatic, Fantastic, Intense

Born in Dilston, Northumberland, in 1963, is a British artist, who was one of the five members of the co-operative running the City Racing gallery in London (1988-98). Noble was featured as Skip Hunter alongside Ella Verparajugs (aka Georgina Starr) in the 2004 classic short film Heart to Heart. T

Absurd, Complex, Fantastic, Representational, Sardonic