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Dürer

Weekend Reflections: 1 Landscapes

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Reflections seen in landscapes from Dürer’s pioneering watercolour, through Poussin and Turner to Monet, Sisley and Neo-Impressionists.

October 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Silent Hunters of the Night: paintings of owls 1

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Symbols of the night, and through association with Athena/Minerva, for wisdom and learning. Owls in paintings to William Blake.

January 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 17 A short history

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From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.

December 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 2 Beginnings

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Although it was Leon Battista Alberti, in the southern Renaissance, who first developed the subject of composition in […]

September 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Nemesis (retribution)

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If you’re arrogant before the gods, succumbing to Hubris (another deity), then Nemesis is what will come to you.

May 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

River power: Paintings of watermills 1

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From Dürer in about 1500, through van Ruisdael, Hobbema, Vernet, Girtin, to Constable watermills were popular in landscape art.

May 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Distant Past: Charlemagne 2

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Charles knelt at the altar in front of the Pope on Christmas Day 800. When he rose, he was wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor. A surprise perhaps?

September 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Work in Progress: Lucas Cranach’s Martyrdom of St Catherine

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With a reputation for being an impulsive and rapid painter, evidence from IR reflectography shows how this painting evolved as it was being made.

August 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The first Italian Master in oil: Antonello da Messina 2

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His time in Venice brought a succession of masterpieces, including the large San Cassiano altarpiece, a Salvator Mundi, and Virgin Annunciate which were highly influential.

August 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 5 Watercolour and gouache

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With a binder of gum arabic, watercolours came into use in the Renaissance, and have steadily increased in popularity.

April 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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