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Category Archive: Life

The Passion Complete: Telling the whole story 2

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Another remarkable sequence by Bosch, followed by Ferrari’s fresco account of the Life and Passion of Christ, ending with the Passion of the Apostles.

April 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Passion Complete: Telling the whole story 1

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Few paintings attempt to tell the full story of the Passion. Here are remarkable works by Duccio, Hans Memling, and Hieronymus Bosch.

April 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rhys Terfel Talog: the April Fool

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Time to fess up: not a word of it was true. I hope you enjoyed my April Fool. Here are the correct details for those wonderful paintings.

April 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The bicentenary of Rhys Terfel Talog

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Born two hundred years ago today, he’s now though to have played a major part in the birth of Impressionism, and Neo-Impressionism.

April 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Sydney Parkinson’s posthumous masterpieces

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The botanical and general artist to Sir Joseph Banks, botanist to James Cook’s first voyage in the Pacific. He didn’t live to see any of his works shown to the public.

March 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Don Quixote 3: Windmills

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In which Don Quixote engages Sancho Panza as his squire; they ride out together to battle against windmills, then attack two friars apparently abducting a lady.

March 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: A guide and contents

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From Aesculapius to Zeus, key features of each of the major male deities in classical myths, and links to individual articles here.

March 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A history of history painting after 1800: 1870 on

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Following the Paris Commune of 1871, history painters resorted to indirect reference in paintings of obscure episodes in mediaeval history.

March 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A history of history painting after 1800: to 1869

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From David’s history paintings of the end of the eighteenth century, the genre went from strength to strength, with major works by Goya, GĂ©ricault, and even Manet.

March 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: How patrons shaped the Renaissance

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It was the patrons who funded, enabled, and occasionally directed the movement towards realism and secular subjects, and developed the genres.

March 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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