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Paintings of reading and books 3: Tranquil or dangerous

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More women reading, from Dante’s beloved Beatrice to Charlotte Corday, who was psyching herself up with Plutarch’s Lives before murdering Marat in his bath.

November 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of reading and books 2: Woman reading

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From a naked woman devouring novels, through a class of young Breton girls, to Berthe Morisot’s and Lovis Corinth’s women reading.

November 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Magic Carpet: Carpets in paintings 2

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Carpets in paintings by Gérôme, his former pupil Osman Hamdi Bey, Georges Rochegrosse, Pierre Bonnard and Paul Nash.

April 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Magic Carpet: Carpets in paintings 1

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Paintings by Vermeer, Delaroche, Whistler, Gérôme, Waterhouse and others showing wonderful carpets and floors.

April 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Intangible: Explaining the non-visual in allegory

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How can visual artists express non-visual concepts like the senses, virtues, the struggle between good and evil? Examples from Botticelli, Tintoretto, Rubens, and others.

July 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Into the Light: Osman Hamdi Bey

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A polymath during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, he trained in Paris, and painted wonderful street and other scenes in Turkey.

January 22, 2017 General, Painting

The meaning of tortoises

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Why are there two tortoises in the foreground of Moreau’s ‘Orpheus’? After a journey through Zen Buddhism, fables, and political allegory, the answer may be more obvious.

January 15, 2017 General, Painting
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