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Bosch

Not Like That: Broken up

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Masaccio’s 20-panel polyptych, Bosch’s triptych, and one of the most substantial paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Even Monet’s Grainstacks series.

March 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 43 What’s wrong in that painting? 1

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A collection of paintings with strange incongruities that can make them impossible to read, from Masaccio to Gérôme.

March 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 35 Chimeras and devils

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In quest of the Chimera from classical mythology in paintings of Michelangelo, Bosch, de Vos and others.

February 13, 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

Reading visual art: 27 Eagle and owl

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Two birds associated with myth: Zeus’s eagle, often used to indicate his presence in disguise, and the symbol of night and wisdom, the owl.

January 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Ship of Fools

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An allegory of a flawed democracy by Plato, a fragment of a triptych by Bosch, then two paintings in 1922 and 1930. What is its meaning?

November 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 2 Wings of Angels

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A visual history tracing wings back to their origins in messengers of the gods and messenger-gods of the dawn of civilisation, 4 millennia ago.

October 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 1 Introduction

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Rediscovering our iconology and visual tradition, starting with a Ship of Fools, Death and the Maiden, Truth coming out of her well, and the wings on angels.

September 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 12: Monochrome paintings

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Grisaille – grey underpainting used to set the tone for a finished work – is like underwear, waiting for richly coloured clothes to go on top. Not in these paintings, though.

July 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Fountain of Life 1

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From sacred symbols in a mosaic of Theodora and the Adoration of the Lamb, to roadside watering holes, and the town’s fresh water supply.

May 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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