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Where did you get that hat? 1 Paintings of hat history

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Why did Bosch show people wearing funnels on their heads? Why the Roundheads? How to tell priestly rank by the hat, and more about chaperons and top hats.

March 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Athena (Minerva)

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Wisdom, crafts including weaving, and warfare, she’s a popular figure in paintings from Mantegna to Klimt, and a contestant in the Judgement of Paris.

October 12, 2020 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 Sight of Music: Concerts in paintings 1

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If composers and performers can evoke visual images in music, why can’t painters return the complement? Lavinia Fontana, Vermeer, Menzel, Corot and others try.

May 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Mother and baby in paintings 1

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Features Harriet Backer’s masterpiece, and paintings by Giorgione, Ford Madox Brown, Jules Breton and his daughter, and others.

May 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The horse with wings: 1 Pegasus

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From Mantegna and dancing Muses, through Rubens and Rochegrosse with the legend of Perseus, to a portrait by Odilon Redon.

March 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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

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

The Annunciation, old and more innovative

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In the hands, and brushes, of great artists, a religious set-piece becomes a succession of marvellous and highly innovative paintings.

December 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 45 – How came the Horn of Plenty

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Ovid, through Achelous the river god, explains how the Horn of Plenty was wrenched from Achelous’ head in a fight with Hercules. With a gem of modern narrative painting too.

October 2, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

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