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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

Rolling Thunder: stories of storms

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Every lightning bolt tells a story, with paintings by Rubens, Richard Wilson, Poussin, John Martin, Adam Elsheimer, William Blake, and more.

June 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Out of darkness, light: The development of chiaroscuro 1

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A whirlwind trip through the history of compositional chiaroscuro, from the Renaissance, through Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi, to Rembrandt.

December 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting

In Hospital: 1, Doom

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From providing basic hospitality to those who couldn’t be nursed by their families, hospitals started to change during the Age of Enlightenment. But for many they were still the waiting room for hell.

June 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Towards a timeline

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An illustrated timeline and overview of how the human visual environment, and perception of it, has changed from ancient times to virtual reality.

January 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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