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Folk Tales in Paintings: Robin Hood and other merry men

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Robin Hood, who robbed the bad to help the poor, and his colleagues William Tell, Oleksa Dovbush and Holger Danske.

May 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 50 Hell

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Depicted as a physical place full of demons, torment and eternal suffering, and a deterrent to all those who commit sins on earth.

April 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

The Resurrection in modern paintings

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Paintings by William Blake, William Holman Hunt, Albert Edelfelt, Albin Egger-Lienz and others.

April 9, 2023 General, Life, Painting

The Crucifixion in modern paintings

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Paintings by William Blake, Elihu Vedder, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Léon Bonnat, James Tissot, Lovis Corinth and others.

April 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Vanished under varnish

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Varnish has been applied to protect the paint layer. But layers of old varnish discolour and trap dirt and contaminants, letting a painting vanish into the dark.

March 29, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 42 Words in the story

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Inscriptions in paintings that reveal the story, or quote from its literary source, from Rembrandt to the Pre-Raphaelites.

March 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Failed media

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Tragic stories of great paintings that no longer look anything like their originals, from Leonardo da Vinci and William Blake.

March 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 2 Paris and his Judgement

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Paris, Prince of Troy, is the perfect pawn in Zeus’s plan for war. He develops a taste for beautiful women, then accepts Aphrodite’s bribe in the beauty contest of the three goddesses.

March 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 36 Modern chimeras

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Can William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Jacek Malczewski or others come any closer to the classical Chimera?

February 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Introduction to a new series on paintings that have changed

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Paintings that don’t look like they were intended to be, from Leonardo’s Last Supper, to Manet’s cut-up Execution of Emperor Maximilian.

February 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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