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Reading Visual Art: 245 Scissors

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In the weaving contest between Arachne and Minerva, used by the Fates, cropped to weaken Samson, in the Annunciation, or simply for cutting.

February 13, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: William Blake’s fresco and tempera

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Trained first as an engraver, he avoided oil paints altogether, working in conventional watercolour, mixed media, and developed two distinctive techniques, one of watercolour monoprints, the other using glue tempera.

February 10, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Monotypes

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Take a flat metal plate and paint on it using gouache or oils, then impress it onto a sheet of paper, and apply soft pastel to bring out the colour. That’s a painted monotype print.

January 27, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 236 Carpenter

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In a myth invented by Piero, a radical annunciation, Pre-Raphaelite religious paintings, William Blake and others who allude to Joseph, the most famous of all.

November 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Varnish and the mists of grime

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Composition and effects of different types of varnish, with its visual effects, and how it can make a painting unreadable when it contains accumulated dirt.

November 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 16 Overview, Purgatory and Paradise

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How Dante meets up with Virgil, and is guided by him down to the deepest circle of Hell. About the other two books, covering Purgatory and Paradise.

November 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 15 Lucifer himself

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To the depths of Hell, to see the giant triple-headed Lucifer eating Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius. Then as dawn draws near, back to the world above.

November 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 14 Count Ugolino

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The horrific story of a count locked away to starve to death, who turned to cannibalism. How that came to be used falsely in Lavater’s physiognomy.

October 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 13 Treachery

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Fraudsters, the incestuous Myrrha, mother of Adonis, a counterfeiter, Potiphar’s wife, then the treacherous who betrayed their kin.

October 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 12 Fraud and inciting division

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First a centaur killed by Hercules, then souls being tormented by reptiles, those with fraudulent lives burning in hell, and dismembered parts of those who inflamed dissent.

October 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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