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Blake

The best of 2020’s paintings and articles 2

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Anders Zorn, William Blake, John Constable, the amazing Pre-Raphaelite Kate Bunce, and Samuel Palmer’s painting of Sir Guyon and the Palmer.

December 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Nativity: Innovation

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Nine very different nativities, from the apocalyptic warnings of a martyr, through the Emperor Augustus, to Maurice Denis’ nativity in a contemporary French town.

December 26, 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

A History of Rome in Paintings: 14 Assassination

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Three senators conspired with thirty others to end Caesar’s passion for royal powers. One artist ignored convention and painted two superb accounts.

November 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Hermes (Mercury)

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Seldom shown in lead roles, superb paintings by masters including Botticelli, Blake, Renoir, and Velázquez, and one strange myth to finish.

November 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Telling stories in paintings and illustrations 2

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Paintings and illustrations by Gustave Doré and Walter Crane, two of the 19th century’s major illustrators, and both accomplished painters.

September 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Anyone for Badminton? Its early history in paintings 1

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When was the sport of badminton first played? These early paintings, including William Blake’s ‘The Fly’, look promising but show a children’s game instead.

September 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Quiet Landscapes: watercolours of Eric Ravilious 2

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The war years, from eerily deserted scenes of the Sussex Downs, to north Norway for a deployment, and military flight, which brought about his death.

September 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Quiet Landscapes: watercolours of Eric Ravilious 1

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Influenced by the Shoreham landscapes of Samuel Palmer, and his teacher John Nash, here are the eerily empty landscapes of Essex, Sussex Downs, and elsewhere.

September 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Here be Monsters in paintings

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Sphinxes by Ingres and Moreau, Watts’ Minotaur, Blake’s Cerberus, Hieronymus Bosch, and more monsters.

August 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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