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Category Archive: Life

Nativity: Innovation

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Nine very different nativities, from the apocalyptic warnings of a martyr, through the Emperor Augustus, to Maurice Denis’ nativity in a contemporary French town.

December 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Nativity: Invention

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Paintings from 1263 to 1504 show how the traditional Nativity developed. Examples by Duccio, Campin, Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo.

December 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Landscapes 2

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Enchanted Norwegian birch woods, the Massachusetts coast, Catalina Island by night, Spanish mountains, and a picturesque French village.

December 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Faerie Queene 19: Defeat and slavery

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Artegall and his iron servant Talus progress on his quest. They come across Amazons who, led by their queen, capture knights, put them in women’s clothes and force them to perform women’s work like spinning. This fate is in store for Artegall too.

December 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 20 The Capitoline Hill and Tarpeian Rock

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Key parts of the background of paintings of the story of the rape of the Sabine Women, this hill was originally a fortress, then the major temple to Jupiter.

December 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Hebe

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Goddess of youth, and cupbearer to the Olympian deities, she was a popular guise for portraits, and shown in a few mythological paintings.

December 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Art in Painting: 3 Cameras

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Did Vermeer use a camera obscura? What went wrong with Impressionist oil sketches? When did Klimt paint from photographs? Does any of this really detract from the art in a painting?

December 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Art in Painting: 2 Classical Methods

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Sketches and studies are the richest evidence for the artistic in craft-dominated processes required to turn those into a painting.

December 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Art in Painting: 1 art and craft

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Latest in a succession of techniques, AR can guide someone to draw, just the camera obscura, photography and projectors did. Do these detract from the art in a painting?

December 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Genre and landscapes 1

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A party of landsfolk riding in horsedriven hay wagon, the artist’s mother sewing in Nabi style, tennis in Rhode Island, and a deserted table by the sea.

December 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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