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Reading visual art: 27 Eagle and owl

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Two birds associated with myth: Zeus’s eagle, often used to indicate his presence in disguise, and the symbol of night and wisdom, the owl.

January 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Gorgeous Landscapes 1: Wolf to Cole

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Declared sublime, and named after the throat, they’re painted from the mid-18th century. Works by Wolf, Turner, Ward, German Romantics and more.

June 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Open Door 1: paintings 1400-1890

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From Jan van Eyck to Caillebotte and Claus, these paintings show the view beyond an open doorway, commonly as a means of incorporating a landscape.

April 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Eugen Bracht 1

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Landscapes which are quietly unusual, and one of the Symbolist masterworks of the 19th century, after which he turned Impressionist.

November 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How the Other Half Live: paintings of stately homes 1

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Palaces of Albert VII, Rubens’ own Het Steen, an imposing Swiss castle, Wivenhoe Park in hiding, and an Australian pastoral station.

July 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Florence: 2 Landscapes

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From Corot to Sérusier, the American Thomas Cole to the British John Brett, a collection of superb landscapes of the city.

February 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 2

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The wanderer with his back to the viewer takes on new life with Thomas Fearnley. Is he the artist’s alter ego?

August 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 1

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Wanderers, wayfarers and pilgrims have walked across continents in search of wisdom, spiritual enlightenment, or a bite to eat and sheltered sleep.

August 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 3

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Why would an artist compose a painting to hide the face? Examples by Degas, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent and others. It’s our faces that make us human.

June 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Mysterious Places of Arnold Böcklin 1

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A succession of impending landscapes which culminate in ‘Villa by the Sea’, a mysterious Mediterranean view. An early symbolist?

October 31, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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