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A to Z of Landscapes: Greens

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Essential pigments for the landscape artist: green earths, malachite, verdigris, copper resinate, Prussian green, viridian, and emerald green.

March 28, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 120 Rainbows narrative

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The primary attribute of Iris, with the soothing song of Amphitrite, bearing the Norse deities to Valhalla, the sign of God’s covenant after the Flood, and at the Last Judgement.

March 12, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Mary Magdalene: Gospel times

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Although conflated with another Mary, she features in her own right in paintings of the Deposition, as Myrrhbearer, and Noli me tangere.

March 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 95 Ghosts A

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Henry Fuseli, Ary Scheffer, Botticelli, William Blake and other artists paint the ghosts in Shakespeare’s plays and other literary sources.

December 12, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 83 Hammers in myth and religion

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Wielded by the Etruscan god of death Charun, Hephaistos or Vulcan, Jael as she killed Sisera, those who nailed Christ to the cross, and the Norse god Thor.

October 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 76 Dogs A, Workers

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Dogs guarding the underworld, attributes of Diana, discovering Tyrian purple, gathering scraps under the Last Supper, and telling part of the story.

October 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Bathsheba and King David: voyeurism rewarded 2

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Paintings from Rembrandt’s second version to Cézanne and Franz von Stuck show the triumph of privileged male power.

October 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Harvest Gold: painting the harvest in England 2

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More gold grain crops and sunsets from Samuel Palmer and his mentor John Linnell during the middle of the nineteenth century.

September 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Harvest Gold: painting the harvest in England 1

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Gold of ripe grain crops and gold of rich sunsets are distinctive of the paintings of Samuel Palmer and his mentor John Linnell. Here are works from Palmer’s time at Shoreham.

September 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

The bicentenary of Alexandre Cabanel: 1

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Painter of history and religious works, his first patron was Alfred Bruyas, who later bought from Courbet. For 25 years he taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

September 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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