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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

Landscape Composition: 17 A short history

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From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.

December 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 12 Directing light

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With its central role in visual art, light and its source plays a critical role in composition. It’s also one of the challenges to those painting in the studio or in front of the motif.

November 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Painted Story of the Aeneid: 2 From Carthage to Apotheosis

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After Dido’s suicide, Aeneas takes a trip to the underworld, guided by the Cumaean Sibyl. He goes on to found the city of Lavinium, a precursor to Rome.

October 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Painted Story of the Aeneid: 1 From Troy to Carthage

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Great paintings of the masters telling Virgil’s epic of the life of Aeneas. From his conception and the fall of Troy, to his time with Dido in Carthage.

October 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 7 Turner’s revolution

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His early landscapes followed van Mander. He also expressed his love of Claude’s work, before composition dissolved into light and colour.

October 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 5 Real landscapes

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From the Flemish artist Paul Bril, to Claude Lorrain, and then through the French ports of Claude-Joseph Vernet to the oil sketches of Valenciennes.

October 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The gold-digger who painted Australia: 1 From Vienna to Victoria

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An Austrian who trained at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, joined a gold rush in Australia, then painted the continent’s landscapes.

March 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Cybele (Magna Mater), Mother of the Gods

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An exotic import until the Romans enlisted her support against the Carthaginians, her chariot is drawn by a lion and lioness – who desecrated an old shrine.

February 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 22 The Colosseum

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Finance by the spoils of the Temple of Jerusalem, a place of suffering and death, and for oppression of Christians. Success out of excess.

January 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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