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Botticelli

The origins of painted Nativity scenes

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Early paintings of the Nativity from 1263 to 1504, from Duccio, Robert Campin, Petrus Christus, Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo.

December 25, 2023 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

The rape of Lucretia in paintings

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Superb paintings of this tragedy from Roman history, by Veronese, Reni, Gentileschi, Rembrandt and Godfrey Kneller.

October 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 81 Language of flowers A

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Saying it with flowers from Botticelli’s Primavera with over 130 species of flower to Hans Memling’s innovative floral still life.

October 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 61 Cupids, putti, cherubs

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Is that the god Cupid, a Cupid, a putto, an amorino, or a cherub? The differences explained and illustrated in paintings by Botticelli, Titian, Raphael and others.

June 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 41 Signatures and dedications

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Signatures written on scraps of paper, or in books, with comments, dedications in graffiti, and an apocalyptic vision of Botticelli.

March 9, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 31 Two or more scenes in one image

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Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image

February 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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

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