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Reading visual art: 31 Two or more scenes in one image

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Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image

February 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Modern Christmas paintings: Nativity

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Modern interpretations of this highly popular theme in Christian religious painting, from William Blake to Joseph Stella in 1929-33.

December 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 1: Classical folds

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Classical and mediaeval dress was simple, and not tailored much until after 1000 CE. Painters were also constrained by fresco and egg tempera.

April 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Easter: Crucifixion

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A staple product of many pro painters in western Europe for over half a millennium, and required by every church and chapel.

April 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

With ox and ass: traditional paintings of the Nativity

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From a prototype laid out by Duccio in about 1310, through the vision of Saint Bridget, to modernised versions in a French town or English cattle shed.

December 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: The rise of narrative painting

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In Florence, stories told in paintings became increasingly secular, and ingeniously integrated multiple scenes from the single story into one painting.

April 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Passion Complete: Telling the whole story 1

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Few paintings attempt to tell the full story of the Passion. Here are remarkable works by Duccio, Hans Memling, and Hieronymus Bosch.

April 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: Was perspective essential to the Renaissance?

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For over a century, Italian painters had strived to achieve coherent perspective projection, but it was until about 1420 that this was achieved. How essential was it?

March 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: 1 Was there art before the Renaissance?

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First in a new series looking at Renaissance painting from Italy, centred on Florence, shows some of the masterpieces of the ‘gap’ before the Gothic.

February 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Nativity: Invention

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Paintings from 1263 to 1504 show how the traditional Nativity developed. Examples by Duccio, Campin, Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo.

December 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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