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Reading visual art: 22 Feet

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Barefoot and sometimes surprising, as Christ washes the disciples’ feet, and other feet are missing altogether. Barefoot means poverty too.

December 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Coming home to a real fire in paintings 1

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Paintings of open fires and stoves from 1565 to 1884 show how we lived through the winter before central heating.

December 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 18 Spinning

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Spinning natural fibres like wool into yarn was “women’s work” and had several connotations, here explored in paintings, and the origin of the word ‘spinster’.

December 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the fruitfulness of Autumn/Fall 1

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Not just the cereal harvest, but here paintings of the fruit harvest, from Bassano and Poussin, with grapes, figs, apples, blackberries, to Berthe Morisot.

September 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 8: Rags and tatters

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Paintings showing the ragged tatters work by peasants and labourers, from social realism and Naturalism between 1850-90.

June 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Something’s cooking: Paintings of the kitchen

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An offshoot of still life paintings of food, it was never very popular, and most of these are decidedly odd. From Jan Brueghel the elder to

May 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Staffs in paintings: 3 Power

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Bishop’s crosier, monarch’s sceptre, field-marshal’s baton, or just another fashion accessory?

April 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Staffs in paintings: 2 Shepherd’s crooks

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From the Adoration of the Shepherds to the Corydon Shepherd of Virgil’s Eclogues, they all had their crooks.

April 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Barefoot painting 2

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Bare feet as a sign of rural poverty, among irregular peasant volunteer soldiers, and striking miners. But what about the kissing of feet?

April 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam Eugène Burnand: Alpine meadows

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Trained with Gérôme in Paris, he painted fine rural landscapes of Alpine meadows, religious works, and used advanced optical effects.

February 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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