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Botticelli

Reading visual art: 23 Transformation 1

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Transformations of Chloris into Flora, Daphne into a laurel tree, and Actaeon into a stag which is promptly killed by his own hunting dogs.

January 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 21 Footwear

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Only the gods wore sandals in the ancient world. Then the state of your footwear told much about you, with fashion opting for the outrageously impractical.

December 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 13 Hair in secular paintings

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From Venus covering herself with her hair, to combing through the hair for nits and lice. Artists include Botticelli, Rossetti and Degas.

November 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the winds 1: Zephyrus

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The personification of the west wind, to the Greeks gentle and responsible for bringing the start of the growing season, and the abduction and rape of a nymph who became Flora.

July 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Glue tempera paintings 1: Renaissance and William Blake

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Paints using glue as their binder, instead of oil, were popular in the early Renaissance before being replaced by oils. William Blake revived them around 1800.

July 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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

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