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A to Z of Landscapes: X marks the spot

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Sixteen views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, painted between 1745 and 2006, showing where they were painted from.

July 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A to Z of Landscapes: Trees 1

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The first of two articles about painting trees, featuring Rubens, Poussin, Gainsborough, Constable, Corot and others.

June 27, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A to Z of Landscapes: Oil sketch

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From Velázquez’s pioneering sketches of 1630, through Valenciennes in 1780, to Constable, Corot, and Pissarro, Manet and John Singer Sargent in the late 19th century.

May 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Celebrating the 200th birthday of London’s National Gallery 2

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Some of the many major works from the 19th century, from Caspar David Friedrich, through Turner and Constable, to Paul Cézanne, and van Gogh’s sunflowers.

May 5, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 121 Rainbows landscape

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In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast.

March 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A to Z of Landscapes: Cloudscapes

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First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable’s storms, Turner’s vortices, Boudin’s textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash’s imagination.

March 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 101 Fishing A

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The fall of Icarus, Raphael’s cartoon of the Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Hodler, Larsson, John Constable and others painting anglers.

January 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Lighthouses in paintings: Fair weather

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From the calm of Vernet’s Italian coast, through Heligoland, to Monet at Honfleur, and the Straits of Bosporus.

July 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

The 300th anniversary of the birth of Joshua Reynolds: 3 The Royal Academy of Arts

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, leading portrait painter and founding President of the Royal Academy, was born 300 years ago. He was the most influential British artist for over a century.

July 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 1 Beyond Neoclassicism

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Overview of David’s Neoclassicism, his teacher Guérin, the influence of Constable and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, his friends, and rival Ingres.

May 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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