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Category Archive: Life

Louveciennes landscapes: Before the war

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In the summer of 1869, Renoir was living at his parents’ house in Louveciennes, and Monet was living near Bougival. Together they painted the works that set out the manifesto of Impressionism.

October 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 232 Alchemy

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Popularly intended to transform base metals like lead into gold, alchemy relied on special glassware like alembics, and is included with other ‘dark arts’ in paintings.

October 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

The Dutch Golden Age: Johannes Vermeer 2

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A stolen painting of a concert, a girl with a pearl earring, ladies with a maid and writing a letter, an astronomer and a geographer.

October 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

The Dutch Golden Age: Johannes Vermeer 1

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Finding form with his famous compositions of figures lit by daylight from windows on the left. His use of maps, curtains, and his unique depth of field effects.

October 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Sticks and crayons

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Modern and mixed media such as wax crayons, pencils, oil pastels, oil sticks and oil bars have become increasingly popular, although many age poorly and most have to be kept under glass.

October 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 13 Treachery

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Fraudsters, the incestuous Myrrha, mother of Adonis, a counterfeiter, Potiphar’s wife, then the treacherous who betrayed their kin.

October 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A painterly family: the Alma-Tademas 1884-1943

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Lawrence and his second wife Laura were successful painters, and taught their older daughter Anna to paint. He was knighted, and after his death was interred with great honour in St Paul’s Cathedral.

October 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A painterly family: the Alma-Tademas 1836-81

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1869 was a disastrous year for Lawrence: his wife died suddenly, leaving him to care for their daughters, and he also had a medical problem that defied diagnosis. He went to London and fell in love at first sight.

October 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 231 Tiger

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Drawing the chariot of Bacchus/Dionysus, fighting with Christian martyrs, in a Paris zoo, or torrential rain in a tropical storm, or being hunted to be turned into a skin.

October 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of Christian Krohg’s death

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Trained in Germany because there was no academy in Norway, he soon developed themes of poverty, social injustice, and Norway’s independence. A major influence on Edvard Munch.

October 16, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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