Painstaking watercolour technique using transparent layers like glazes gives marvellous results in the Renaissance narratives.
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At the end of October, some of you who follow this blog by email started reporting to me […]
Friend and model of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, taught to paint by Ford Madox Brown, and photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, her paintings are truly Pre-Raphaelite.
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Florimell stays with a witch, then flees a beast she creates, until she reaches the coast, where her horse is devoured by that beast as she drifts out of sight. Lost or dead?
Caesar and Cleopatra in Egypt, the suicide of Cato the Younger, Caesar’s triumphs, and the development of a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.
Seldom shown in lead roles, superb paintings by masters including Botticelli, Blake, Renoir, and Velázquez, and one strange myth to finish.
Many are proposing a way ahead with Covid-19 based on letting the infection spread naturally through populations to […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 71. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I […]
Photographers, musicians, harvesters, foresters, booksellers and propagandists, and tinkers from the roads of the past.
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