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Canaletto

A weekend on the River Thames in paintings: 2 Lambeth to the estuary

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Completing this river cruise, from Canaletto’s view of Westminster, through a Frost Fair, to John Constable’s Headlight Castle.

September 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 13: What colour is the sky?

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Starting from Egyptian blue in ancient times, pigments preferred by painters for sky blue have changed repeatedly. Here’s a brief history.

July 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Exhibition: Come to London to see Venice through Canaletto’s paintings

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Open daily from now until 25 September, it features 24 of the most wonderful paintings of Venice from the 1730s.

May 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 2 Synthetic pigments

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As a primary colour, blue is essential in painting. The quest for the right blues has spanned the world and resulted in a succession of synthetic pigments which have influenced art.

December 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 13 Little people

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Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?

November 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 9 One piazza, eight views

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A tough compositional challenge: a square that isn’t even rectangular, with unequal sides and a high tower. Solutions by Canaletto and other masters.

October 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Patrons and painters: The consul, the connoisseur and Cleopatra

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A British trader and merchant banker, and an Italian scientist who wrote an account of Newtonian physics for women – their influence on Canaletto, Tiepolo, and others.

May 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Arteries of Industry: paintings of canals 2

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Canals from Sisley at the end of the 19th century, and paintings of Venice by Canaletto, Rico, and of course John Singer Sargent.

June 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Out of the Shadows: Limits and controversy

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Why do Canaletto’s gondolas not have shadows? Where did Cézanne get his shadows wrong, and why, and what colour are shadows really?

November 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Pigment: The first modern pigment, Prussian Blue

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For once the name is accurate: it originated in the Prussian Empire around 1704, and by 1730 had established itself as a standard if not entirely reliable pigment. Watteau, Canaletto, Hogarth, Blake, Monet, and van Gogh all used it.

May 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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