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February fill dyke in paintings: Noah’s Flood

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Painted accounts of the great flood from Genesis, by Michelangelo, Elsheimer, Thomas Cole, JMW Turner and others.

February 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Light-dark 1: Chiaroscuro in paintings to 1700

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Should chiaroscuro paintings show much in the way of colour, given that in the dark only the rods in our retinas function, giving us monochrome vision?

April 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Painted Story of the Aeneid: 1 From Troy to Carthage

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Great paintings of the masters telling Virgil’s epic of the life of Aeneas. From his conception and the fall of Troy, to his time with Dido in Carthage.

October 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

So to bed: paintings of beds 2

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The deathbed, hospital beds through the ages, and what we apparently get up to when we take a friend to bed.

May 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Hospitality to strangers, a theme in narrative painting 1

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Three classical myths – Atlas turned to stone, Philemon and Baucis, and Leto and the Lycians turned into frogs. Why you should always show hospitality to strangers.

September 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Demeter (Ceres)

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Goddess of the harvest, food production, fertility and fecundity, paintings by Millet, Rubens, Elsheimer and others.

August 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 1 Trojan Origins

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Who were the Romans, who built their city and its empire? This series looks at the history of Rome as shown in paintings, starting here with its forefather, Aeneas maybe?

August 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the flight to Egypt

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Fra Bartolomeo, Tintoretto, Blake, Merson, Tanner, and a very special nocturne by Adam Elsheimer show this popular story.

December 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 17 Putting it all together

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From fresco to varnish: a succinct summary of all the different media which have been used in painting, with links to more detailed articles.

July 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Medium Well Done: 14 Copper and other sheets

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Popular with painters during the early 1600s, copper sheets were used by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Adam Elsheimer, David Teniers the younger, William Blake, and Joseph Stella, among others.

June 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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