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Botticelli

Sheer Delight 1: Classical folds

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Classical and mediaeval dress was simple, and not tailored much until after 1000 CE. Painters were also constrained by fresco and egg tempera.

April 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting in Italy around 1500 2: Change

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Paintings by rising stars including Michelangelo, Giorgione and Raphael. The state of paintings of secular stories from classical and literary sources.

April 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting in Italy around 1500 1: Tradition

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Major works from around 1500 by Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, Botticelli, Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, and Fra Bartolomeo.

April 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Piero di Cosimo, who died 500 years ago, 1

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Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of this innovative Florentine painter, a contemporary of Botticelli.

March 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Start of the Year: Paintings of Spring 1

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This is when the year should really begin. A celebration of the real New Year from Botticelli to Pissarro, aided by Sisley, Van Gogh and others.

March 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted cupids for Valentine’s Day

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How we got from one of the most senior gods, and a winged young man, to a chubby infant armed with a bow and arrow, let alone an unknown former saint.

February 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

With ox and ass: traditional paintings of the Nativity

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From a prototype laid out by Duccio in about 1310, through the vision of Saint Bridget, to modernised versions in a French town or English cattle shed.

December 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The 700th anniversary of Dante’s death: 2 His writing

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To celebrate the life and work of Dante, a small selection of paintings inspired by the Divine Comedy, and his ‘Vita Nuova’.

September 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Likeness of Truth 1

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From Apelles, in around 330 BCE, the personification of Truth has had particular importance to painters, in the faithfulness and accuracy of their work. Here she is.

June 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Fruit of the Sea: Paintings of seashells 1

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Huge clam shells were a common feature in paintings of the birth of Venus, and other classical myths. They also feature in many ‘vanitas’ paintings.

June 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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