The shepherds become more real and tatty from the Renaissance and Giorgione to Murillo and Bastien-Lepage.
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From a prototype laid out by Duccio in about 1310, through the vision of Saint Bridget, to modernised versions in a French town or English cattle shed.
Here’s a special Christmas edition of riddles to entertain you through what I hope is a long weekend […]
Paintings from around Europe and North America showing Christmas trees, decorations, family feasts, and Christmas markets.
As a primary colour, blue is essential in painting. The quest for the right blues has spanned the world and resulted in a succession of synthetic pigments which have influenced art.
From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.
Do Booker’s Seven Basic Plots reduce to a series of events leading to a change in fortune (reversal, peripeteia), and establishing the outcome?
Landscapes from Lovis Corinth, Pierre Bonnard, Georg Janny, Anita Rée, Charles Demuth, and the last word from Piet Mondrian.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 130. Here are my solutions to them. 1: They […]
When the Salons were flooding with fleshly dreams of harems, landscape artists were depicting the desert with its camels and caravans.
The Eclectic Light Company 