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Bonnat

Reading visual art: 12 Long hair and the spirit

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The stories of Samson, whose prodigious strength depended on not having his hair cut, and Mary Magdalene, who dried Christ’s feet with her hair.

November 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Léon Bonnat: Teacher

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The art of Thomas Eakins, Gustave Caillebotte, John Singer Sargent, Harriet Backer, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edvard Munch and others were enabled by Bonnat.

September 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Léon Bonnat: Painter 2

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In 1882, he was appointed professor, running one of its two busy teaching ateliers. Later he painted commissions for large works in public buildings.

September 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Léon Bonnat: Painter 1

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A prodigious painter who made his name in 1869. After that he was a sought-after portraitist and a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

September 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Fountain of Life 2

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From Ondines, who kill men by their curse, to a frozen fountain in Agubbio, and parks in New York, Paris and Rome.

May 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Easter: Crucifixion

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A staple product of many pro painters in western Europe for over half a millennium, and required by every church and chapel.

April 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Next Year in Paintings: Rosa Bonheur, Piero di Cosimo, Léon Bonnat and others

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Among the 2022 anniversaries are the 500th of the death of Piero di Cosimo, the centenary of the death of Léon Bonnat who taught Sargent and Munch, and the birth of animal painter Rosa Bonheur.

January 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Profound Tranquility: the paintings of Alphonse Osbert

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He was a friend of the Divisionist Georges Seurat, but in the late 1880s became a strict Symbolist. A small but fine selection of his paintings.

January 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Martyrs’ Mountain: Paintings of Montmartre 1

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The hill that rises from the densely-packed streets of Paris, painted by Jongkind, Alfred Sisley, Ilya Repin, Renoir, and others.

January 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Salammbô and Symbolism

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A story of horrific brutality set in Carthage after the First Punic War may not seem ideal for paintings. But at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was.

October 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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