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Next Year in Paintings: Joaquín Sorolla, Alexandre Cabanel, Sir Joshua Reynolds and more

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Coming this New Year are the tercentenary of the birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the bicentenary of the birth of Alexandre Cabanel, and the centenary of the untimely death of Joaquín Sorolla.

January 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 15: Hamlet 2

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Paintings of the death of Ophelia, from the first by Delacroix in 1838 to an etching from 1889. The most popular scene which happens entirely off-stage.

September 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 2 Perseus and Theseus

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How well do paintings of the stories of Perseus and Theseus fit Booker’s Seven Basic Plots? As he gives these as examples of Overcoming the Monster, do his stages work?

October 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A life of Theseus in paintings: 3 Fights and failed relationships

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A banquet with a river god, a pitched battle at his friend’s wedding which turned into a full-scale war, a relationship involving incest, suicide and violent death, and the abduction of Helen – quite the career of a Greek hero.

October 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Nymph and mortal of the week: Echo and Narcissus

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A nymph cursed by Hera to repeat the words just spoken to her, and a youth who falls in love with his own image. Together the result in some of the finest narrative paintings.

December 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 8 Sacked by Gauls

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The Gauls took the whole city of Rome, apart from its Capitol, but were then effectively put under siege themselves. The city was looted and sacked.

September 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: The Birth of Aphrodite (Venus Anadyomene)

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Some of the greatest figurative artists including Botticelli, Titian, Poussin, Boucher, Ingres, Moreau, and Joseph Stella.

June 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Is there a Willow? Paintings of Ophelia to 1889

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Millais’ wonderful painting of Ophelia wasn’t the first such work. From West and Delacroix to Rossetti and Bastien-Lepage, here she is.

August 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The First Impressionist? Johan Jongkind’s Bicentenary – first period in France

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Four years of landscapes, becoming increasingly painterly. Early views of major Impressionist themes around Paris and the coast at Étretat, over a decade before Monet.

May 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 4 Lust

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The Second Circle of Hell, in which those whose sin was lust are blown by eternal storms. The story of Paolo and Francesca, and many wonderful paintings.

March 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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