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The Women in the Life of Jules Joseph LeFebvre 1

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With the exception of his early history paintings and a few portraits of men, his entire career was devoted to painting beautiful women.

February 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Teacher of John Singer Sargent, Edvard Munch, and more: Léon Bonnat

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The teacher of Caillebotte, Eakins, Munch, John Singer Sargent, Toulouse-Lautrec and many other artists. But almost forgotten himself.

January 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Legends of England in Paint: Robin Hood

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The first of two looking at the telling of English legends in paintings: Robin Hood and his ‘Merry Men’, popular for the last 500 years.

September 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 1a Theseus, from the flight to Naxos

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After abandoning Ariadne on Naxos, he takes a succession of brides, battles with the Amazons, and fights for the Lapiths against the centaurs. But did he rape Helen? Paintings by Corinth, Waterhouse, Rubens, and more.

May 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Face that Launched a Thousand Artists: Helen (and Paris)

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Was she abducted, seduced, or seducer? Victim or whore? Ovid’s pair of letters between Helen and Paris raises questions which many artists have tried to tackle.

March 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Pride and Petulance: How one woman almost spared Troy

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The anger of Achilles almost brought the Greek war against Troy to a grinding halt. But is Homer’s account fair, or was there more to it?

April 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

President’s Park, the Titanic, and a Name on a Tree: The story of Oenone

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How many in the White House know the story of the memorial fountain just opposite – of Butt and Millet, Tennyson, and Oenone?

March 12, 2017 General, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Pierre Guérin, the Prix de Rome, and the Death of Cato

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Also a grim story of suicidal disembowelling, and a propaganda painting for Napoleon.

August 4, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Léon Cogniet and Delacroix’s Abduction of Rebecca

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The most brilliant history painter of his early career, he became a great teacher, and influenced many artists of the 1800s, including Delacroix.

July 29, 2016 General, Painting
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