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Béraud

All the fashion: 2 Milliner

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Milliners trimmed and sold hats to customers, which appeared to be more rewarding, and the chance to wear the latest fashions.

January 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

All the fashion: 1 Seamstress

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View by many as the start of a slippery slope to prostitution, dressmaking demanded long hours of work in return for a pittance/

January 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 12 Long hair and the spirit

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The stories of Samson, whose prodigious strength depended on not having his hair cut, and Mary Magdalene, who dried Christ’s feet with her hair.

November 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Léon Bonnat: Teacher

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The art of Thomas Eakins, Gustave Caillebotte, John Singer Sargent, Harriet Backer, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edvard Munch and others were enabled by Bonnat.

September 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 9: Chroma, class and the modern

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The experience of colour in our buildings, indoor environments, clothing and objects we look at has changed. What used to be a privilege of class is now all but universal.

June 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of drawn carts 1

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From two pairs of unicorns drawing the Duke and Duchess of Urbino to a horse-drawn fire engine racing through the countryside, how animals have drawn people everywhere.

January 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Where did you get that hat? 2 Paintings of hat society

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Where did milliners come from? How does it take 5 hours to choose a hat? What did Ouled Naïl women wear on their head? More wonderful paintings of hats and their owners.

March 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Where did you get that hat? 1 Paintings of hat history

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Why did Bosch show people wearing funnels on their heads? Why the Roundheads? How to tell priestly rank by the hat, and more about chaperons and top hats.

March 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of writing 2

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Paintings by David, Richard Dadd, Carl Larsson, Pierre Bonnard, and Jean Béraud exploring the roles of writing in the nineteenth century.

December 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting in the Rain 1: 1587-1890

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In the late 19th century painters turned attention to depicting rainy conditions, with Caillebotte’s closely observed views, and effects on colour.

January 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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