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Category Archive: Life

Painting within Tent: introduction to a new series

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Join me to explore Maria Merian’s insects in Surinam, David Livingstone and Thomas Baines on the Zambezi, and William Bradford working his way through pack ice.

January 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Faerie Queene 20: Artegall released and Duessa brought to trial

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After a bitter fight, Britomart kills the Amazon queen and releases her slaves, including Artegall, who later resumes his quest and disposes of the enemy of Queen Mercilla.

January 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 21 The Forum

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Originally a marsh just outside the city’s walls, it came to be the heart of the city, a market, meeting place, and the political hub.

January 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Janus

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The god of transitions, gates and doorways, who may have lent his name to the month of January. Paintings by Rubens, Poussin and Mengs.

January 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Debut: 2 The answers, who painted what

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The answer to yesterday’s quiz: ten wonderful paintings which launched ten major artists of the 19th century, although their better-known works are quite different.

January 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Debut: 1 Can you identify the artists?

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Ten early successes of well-known nineteenth century artists. Can you identify who painted each of them? Answers tomorrow.

January 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Next year in paintings: Ford Madox Brown, Antoine Watteau, Fernand Khnopff

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A look forward to the eclectic collection of painters whose anniversaries I’ll be marking here, and a glimpse of some of the paintings to come. Happy New Year!

January 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2020’s paintings and articles 2

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Anders Zorn, William Blake, John Constable, the amazing Pre-Raphaelite Kate Bunce, and Samuel Palmer’s painting of Sir Guyon and the Palmer.

December 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2020’s paintings and articles 1

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Modigliani’s tragically early death, the American Benjamin West, who painted almost entirely in England, Raphael, Ingres, and John Singer Sargent. What a year!

December 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Landscapes 3

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More modern landscapes by Paul Nash, Anna Hills, Lesser Ury, Lovis Corinth, Pierre Bonnard, Emily Carr, and Joseph Stella’s Cubist masterpiece.

December 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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