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Caravaggio

Light-dark 1: Chiaroscuro in paintings to 1700

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Should chiaroscuro paintings show much in the way of colour, given that in the dark only the rods in our retinas function, giving us monochrome vision?

April 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted cupids for Valentine’s Day

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How we got from one of the most senior gods, and a winged young man, to a chubby infant armed with a bow and arrow, let alone an unknown former saint.

February 14, 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

Still Life History: A is for apple

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In myth and legend, apples have determined the future of civilisation twice. They’re also some of the most enduring objects to be seen in still life paintings.

August 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: A timeline in paintings

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A timeline of milestone paintings, first surviving examples of the achievements of the Italian Renaissance, from 1320-1596.

May 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: The end of the Renaissance

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From about 1530, painting started to change. Brushstrokes became visible, anatomy exaggerated, composition less balanced and ideal. First Mannerism, then came the Baroque.

May 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life History: 2 Clara Peeters the pioneer

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Between about 1607-21 she painted exclusively still lifes. Highly innovative, she led the way for the many painters who succeeded her.

May 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life History: 1 Birth of a new genre

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Until the seventeenth century, still life paintings were occasional curiosities, From the Romans and Hans Memling to the early Dutch Golden Age the genre developed steadily.

May 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: A guide and contents

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From Aphrodite to Vesta, a reference summary of all the major Classical goddesses, with links to individual accounts.

April 5, 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

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