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Painted Stories in Britain 11: John Martin

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A vast canvas with an apocalyptic vision of death and destruction? It must be one of John Martin’s, then. Another distinctive British narrative painter.

November 9, 2022 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

Painting the Fountain of Life 1

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From sacred symbols in a mosaic of Theodora and the Adoration of the Lamb, to roadside watering holes, and the town’s fresh water supply.

May 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2021’s paintings and articles 1

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In case you missed or have forgotten them: some of the highlights of articles on paintings published here from Jan to June last year.

December 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Audubon’s birds 1

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Born in Haiti, raised in France, emigrated to the US when he was 18, he assembled a unique collection of paintings of birds from his many field trips.

June 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Frederic Edwin Church in detail 1

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His working methods were traditional, in making copious drawings and oil sketches in front of the motif, then composing those into large finished oil paintings.

May 26, 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

Paintings of Legendary Lands 2

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We journey on, through Thomas Cole’s classical city, to the Garden of Armida, briefly to Paradise, past the submerged city of Ys, ending up in a Surrealist vision of the Dorset coast.

November 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Gods of the Week: Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus

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Atlas, who bears the heavens on his shoulders. Prometheus, who deceived Zeus and was bound by chains as punishment, an eagle eating his liver each day. Epimetheus, who married Pandora.

September 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Caves 2: Views, Birth, and Fantasy

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Hosting Lord Byron’s Alpine Witch, as the birth canal for Thomas Cole’s ‘Voyage of Life’, and an attempt by Courbet to return to the womb? The versatility of caves.

July 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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