Once Britain’s foremost natural history artist, when he realised his eyesight was failing he turned to painting landscapes on his travels.
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In which a young noble starts telling the story as to how he came to pay penance in the mountains, but never finishes. The theft of Sancho’s donkey, and Don Quixote feigns madness.
From about 1530, painting started to change. Brushstrokes became visible, anatomy exaggerated, composition less balanced and ideal. First Mannerism, then came the Baroque.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 99. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Open, […]
The deathbed, hospital beds through the ages, and what we apparently get up to when we take a friend to bed.
Many of our lives start and end in them, and between we spend at least a third of our life in bed. Paintings from Delacroix to Ravilious.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Open, untie […]
Between about 1607-21 she painted exclusively still lifes. Highly innovative, she led the way for the many painters who succeeded her.
She was in Suriname for two years, painting butterflies, moths, their relationships with plants and their lifecycles, but had to return early with malaria.
She set out to investigate, document and paint the lifecycles of butterflies and moths at a time when most thought they arose spontaneously.
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