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Fortescue-Brickdale

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

Good knights in paintings 2

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An early photo by Julia Margaret Cameron, and paintings by Vasnetsov, Rochegrosse, Walter Crane and a whole series by Lovis Corinth.

November 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape embedded 2

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More landscape views embedded in 19th and 20th century paintings, as a posthumous tribute to a colleague, or a context for a still life, perhaps.

August 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life ++ : paintings of the artist’s studio 1

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These became popular during the 18th century, revealing models and those painting them, assistants, and many others. They also became complex allegories.

June 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: How patrons shaped the Renaissance

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It was the patrons who funded, enabled, and occasionally directed the movement towards realism and secular subjects, and developed the genres.

March 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Florence: 1 History

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Paintings of the city of Florence recreating times past, from Dante’s meeting with Beatrice, to Lorenzo the Magnificent in the late 15th century.

February 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Nativity: Innovation

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Nine very different nativities, from the apocalyptic warnings of a martyr, through the Emperor Augustus, to Maurice Denis’ nativity in a contemporary French town.

December 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Narrative and figurative

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Paintings from a century ago by Fortescue-Brickdale, Franz von Stuck, George Bellows, and John Godward, who committed suicide because of Picasso’s success.

December 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale: The Forerunner

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Although too young to have known Rossetti or the Pre-Raphaelites, she painted wonderful allegorical and narrative works well into the 20th century, and was a successful illustrator.

October 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood: a new series

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Introduction to a series of articles looking at the work of some of the brilliant women artists who were associated with the movement.

October 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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