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Category Archive: General

The Other Half: Painters and their models 1

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Arduous demands can be made on models, who are always seen in paintings but never credited. Gérôme’s Emma Dupont, Joanna Hiffernan, and Renoir’s Lise Tréhot.

February 28, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 349

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A snack […]

February 28, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 247 Woodpecker

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Associated with the legendary story of the origin of Rome, a woodpecker kept a close eye on the twin infants Romulus and Remus. It’s also associated with the sorceress Circe.

February 27, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Naturalists: Origins

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Start with genre paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, add Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’, Courbet and Millet’s social realism, Manet and Lhermitte and you’ve made Naturalism.

February 26, 2026 General, Life, Painting

On Reflection: Optics

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Introduction to the geometry of reflections on water, and a composite image to aid their analysis. How Turner altered some of the reflections he painted.

February 25, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Edgar Degas’ mixed media

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After a conventional start with oils and watercolour, he experimented with pastels, using them with water, and applying them to monotypes. He also removed the drying oil from paints.

February 24, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 5 First skirmish and a sorceress

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The crusaders first sight of the Holy City, and an initial skirmish claiming the life of Dudon. Tancred falls in love with the Saracen knight Clorinda, and Armida the sorceress is sent to damage the crusaders from within.

February 23, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 348

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 348. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The next […]

February 23, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Paintings of British Cathedrals and Abbeys: Constable and others

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Leader’s Worcester, Constable’s several paintings of Salisbury, Canaletto’s Saint Paul’s in London, a Thanksgiving at St Paul’s, Bastien-Lepage and Le Sidaner.

February 22, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of British Cathedrals and Abbeys: Thomas Girtin

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How Thomas Girtin’s watercolours of British cathedrals matured from his first of Rochester when he was only 15, to Durham and Ripon Minster a decade later.

February 21, 2026 General, Life, Painting

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