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Category Archive: Painting

Paintings of Florence: 2 Landscapes

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From Corot to Sérusier, the American Thomas Cole to the British John Brett, a collection of superb landscapes of the city.

February 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Florence: 1 History

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Paintings of the city of Florence recreating times past, from Dante’s meeting with Beatrice, to Lorenzo the Magnificent in the late 15th century.

February 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: 2 A Gothic introduction

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How the Tuscan city of Florence came to provide the right conditions for the Renaissance during the 14th century.

February 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: John Auldjo’s ascent of Mont Blanc

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It was only the fourteenth ascent of Western Europe’s highest mountain. Their provisions included 20 bottles of red wine and 18 chickens. His painting helped make mountaineering respectable.

February 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Faerie Queene: Contents and summary of books 1-3

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Una and the Redcrosse Knight, Sir Guyon or of Temperance, and Britomartis or Chastity: plot summary, main characters, and selected paintings.

February 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Iris, the rainbow

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Not just a pretty atmospheric effect, she’s a messenger of the gods, and is involved in many myths. Superb paintings by Guérin, Fuseli and others.

February 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Four Elements: 2 after 1600

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After 1600, series of four paintings fell from favour, and artists, particularly the Brueghel family, combined all into single images.

February 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam: George Dunlop Leslie, one of the St John’s Wood Clique

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He specialised in ‘light genre’ paintings, not-to-serious domestic scenes, painted in fine detail, and was praised by Ruskin.

February 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Four Elements: 1 to 1600

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In the century from 1560, many artists painted allegories of the four elements of the classical world: earth, air, water and fire. Here are some fine examples.

February 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: 1 Was there art before the Renaissance?

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First in a new series looking at Renaissance painting from Italy, centred on Florence, shows some of the masterpieces of the ‘gap’ before the Gothic.

February 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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