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Fortescue-Brickdale

Faithful Friends: Cats in paintings

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Independent and aloof, cats train their humans and think that they’re still large and ferocious. Paintings from Carpaccio to Bonnard.

February 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Novel Nativities old and modern

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From Duccio, Campin, Maurice Denis, Joseph Stella and others. Paintings which changed this most popular of motifs, and were innovative, from 1311-1933.

December 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1919: Narrative

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By Pierre Bonnard, Lovis Corinth, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, John Collier, Joseph Stella, and others. Truly eclectic.

December 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

King Arthur’s women: 2 Queen Guinevere

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She proves unfaithful to King Arthur, in her public affair with Sir Lancelot. But he may not have exactly been loyal to her either.

May 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Nativity, ancient and modern

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A collection of the finest paintings of the Nativity, from 1263 to the 20th century – all innovative, and some unique.

December 25, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale: the last Pre-Raphaelite?

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Although born long after the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood dissolved, she continued its principles well into the 20th century.

November 9, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Faces of the Distant Past: Botticelli, the Medicis and ephemeral beauty

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Painted long after the death of history painting, this shows Botticelli being introduced to the most beautiful woman in northern Italy, in about 1475. Each face is true to life.

November 8, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Elaine of Astolat, or the Lady of Shalott?

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Two different legends about Sir Lancelot and a woman falling in love with him. Both are told here with a selection of fine paintings.

July 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Joan of Arc: 1 The Call

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She has been a symbol of French nationalism, of the revanchism following the Franco-Prussian War, and then of early feminism: some wonderful paintings of Joan’s divine visions.

July 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

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