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Category Archive: Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 19 More martyrs

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A saint banished to the island of Patmos, a history wound around a column, and a megalomaniac emperor strangled in his bath by a professional wrestler.

December 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Nymph and mortal of the week: Echo and Narcissus

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A nymph cursed by Hera to repeat the words just spoken to her, and a youth who falls in love with his own image. Together the result in some of the finest narrative paintings.

December 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Palm Sunday: Palm trees in paintings 2

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Claude Lorrain’s view of Delos, Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks, several versions of the Flight to Egypt, including one by William Blake, and more.

December 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Palm Saturday: Palm trees in paintings 1

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In search of warmth during winter, we go in search of palm trees. In these secular paintings, they appear in modern conservatories and on the Mediterranean coast.

December 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

In Serbian Country: the paintings of Sava Šumanović

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One of the most important Serbian artists of the 20th century, he was a friend of Modigliani in Paris, and a prolific painter of views in Serbia.

December 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Narrative and figurative

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Paintings from a century ago by Fortescue-Brickdale, Franz von Stuck, George Bellows, and John Godward, who committed suicide because of Picasso’s success.

December 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Faerie Queene 17: The Temple of Venus, and Florimell released

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Scudamour tells of his visit to the Temple of Venus, where he met Amoret. Marinell had discovered Florimell, fallen in love, and his mother got her released.

December 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 18 Four Emperors in a Year

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Emperors Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and finally Vespasian before stability was restored. Painted stories of the Batavians, final minutes of Vitellius, and the destruction of Pompeii.

December 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Phaethon

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Known in one spectacular myth, in which he brings the chariot of the sun crashing down to scorch the earth. Paintings by Poussin, Tintoretto, Rubens and Moreau.

December 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Can you trust QuickLook in Big Sur?

It’s enough to make you and Edvard Munch scream: every QuickLook thumbnail and preview has rounded corners. They scream out the arrogance of the designer.

December 7, 2020 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

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