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Colour Notes 13: What colour is the sky?

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Starting from Egyptian blue in ancient times, pigments preferred by painters for sky blue have changed repeatedly. Here’s a brief history.

July 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Landscape Composition: 17 A short history

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From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.

December 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 2 Beginnings

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Although it was Leon Battista Alberti, in the southern Renaissance, who first developed the subject of composition in […]

September 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

From world view to panorama: 1 World views

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From an elevated viewpoint, finely detailed, great depth, figures and buildings tiny in the immensity of the view, far distant horizon – it’s a World View.

February 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rhythm in paintings: Depth and patterns

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Using repeated forms, usually regularly spaced, is a well-known technique for increasing depth, adding optical effects, and more.

November 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying: 1 Big skies, low countries

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Early landscapes constrained the sky to a backdrop. With Rubens and the Golden Age landscape painters it became the subject in its own right.

July 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Distant Past: Charlemagne 2

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Charles knelt at the altar in front of the Pope on Christmas Day 800. When he rose, he was wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor. A surprise perhaps?

September 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 17a Alexander (the Great) 1

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Biography to the death of Darius the King of Persia, with superb paintings by Degas, Elisabetta Sirani, Altdorfer, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and more.

September 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Pigment: Azurite Blue, the mainstay

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The standard blue pigment for the Renaissance and on, until about 1710, it was used in many Old Masters before disappearing by 1800.

June 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Pigment: Copper rust, Verdigris and Copper Resinate

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What turns statues and copper roofs blue-green? ‘Copper rust’, the basis of the intense green pigment Verdigris, used by all the Masters.

March 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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