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The Start of the Year: Paintings of Spring 1

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This is when the year should really begin. A celebration of the real New Year from Botticelli to Pissarro, aided by Sisley, Van Gogh and others.

March 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Complete Angler in paintings 1

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Fishing with rod and line plays a significant part in the myth of Daedalus, and adds calm and timelessness to many landscapes.

February 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Autumn Views 1

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Paintings conveying the atmosphere of autumn, from Joos de Momper in the early 17th century, to Hawkins in about 1890,

October 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 1 Introduction

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A series to examine visual development of figures within narrative paintings, according to their type of plot. The fall of Icarus used as an example.

September 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting the surreal before Surrealism 1

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Examples of surreal visual art from Bosch in about 1500, through Piranesi’s Imaginary Prison, Richard Dadd, to Félix Vallotton in 1892.

September 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: The Muses

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Nine daughters of Mnemosyne representing each division of the classical arts. Paintings from Raphael to Moreau.

July 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Four Seasons: Before Poussin

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Derived from books of hours, paintings of the four seasons started to appear in the late 16th century. Here are Arcimboldo, de Momper, and the Brueghels.

November 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Fire, Fire 1: Brandjes and Napoleon

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From being a sub-genre of landscape painting in the Dutch Golden Age, to recording the catastrophic fire which destroyed most of Moscow when Napoleon occupied the city.

April 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 40 Daedalus and Icarus

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The popular story told concisely by Ovid, and painted brilliantly by van Dyck, Leighton, Rubens, Brueghel, and others.

August 28, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 23 – Minerva and the Muses

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After short mentions of Pegasus making a new spring with his hoof-print, and the strange Pyreneus, the Muses tell of their contest with the daughters of Pierus, who were turned into magpies.

June 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting
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