The Cultural Tutorさんのイラストまとめ

Edward II (1307-1327)

Inherited the Scottish war; decisively defeated by Robert the Bruce in 1314. An unpopular reign marked by trouble with barons and not helped by his controversial bond with Piers Gaveston. His wife turned against him and he was eventually deposed.

28/63

Edgar the Peaceful (959-975)

Also came to the throne as a teenager, but he managed to reunite the divided kingdom left by Eadwig and oversee an era of stability. His coronation in 973 created the tradition which continues to the present day.

8/63

Indeed, the moment of Regulus leaving Rome, resolved to uphold his honour, has been the subject of many works of art down the centuries:

The rise of platitudinous inspirational quotes is surely connected to the rise of the internet.

In an online world swamped daily with an unfathomably large stream of information, attention is everything.

Are video games art?

But William Blake's prophetic poems are still far beyond us.

And he was a prolific artist - we've barely even scratched the surface here. His body of poetry and illustrations is, put simply, colossal.

I highly recommend exploring his work further.

And then there was Los, who represented human imagination and emotion:

And even when he was painting a specific subject, Blake stylised that subject as though it had come to him in a strange, mystical, intangible vision.

Consider his depiction of Canto V from Dante's Inferno:

William Blake (1757-1827) is regarded by some as the greatest English artist who ever lived.

Not only for his paintings, but for his poetry, philosophy, prophecies, and incomprehensibly unique creative voice.

There has never been anybody like him before or since...

See, we can't talk about the second generation of Hudson River School artists without mentioning the Düsseldorf School.

They were a group of Romantic artists trained at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie who painted highly-detailed landscapes.

Wildbach (1840s) by Andreas Achenbach: