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The Art in Painting: 1 art and craft

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Latest in a succession of techniques, AR can guide someone to draw, just the camera obscura, photography and projectors did. Do these detract from the art in a painting?

December 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Raphael and Painting: 10 Last easel paintings

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Including an unusual Transfiguration, which is a composite with the story of healing of a boy possessed by the devil.

April 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Raphael and Painting: 9 The Loggia Frescoes

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Thirteen bays of four small frescoes each telling the Old Testament stories from the Creation to the building of the Temple, and four of the life of Christ.

March 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Raphael and Painting: 6 Stanze and Sibyls

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Eight large frescoes in a style which assimilated what Raphael saw in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, and an arch of sibyls.

March 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Raphael and Painting: 4 First frescoes in Rome

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Three stunning frescoes in a whole room with painted walls and ceiling: the Disputa, School of Athens, and Parnassus. Perfection.

February 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Work in Progress: Masaccio’s Holy Trinity

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A six metre (21 feet) high fresco is a major undertaking, particularly when it’s one of the first paintings to use accurate linear perspective. How was it done?

July 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Medium Well Done: 1 Fresco and secco wall painting

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Many of the greatest and most important European works of art are painted on walls or ceilings. Explains secco, fresco, and how they influence the result.

March 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Raising Lazarus, and 1100-1400 CE

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The late Middle Ages saw many more frescoes and panel paintings survive, and tell stories in greater detail.

May 27, 2016 General, Painting

Opening fields: the origins of Western landscape paintings

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Ask which were the first landscape paintings in Western art, and most would suggest works of Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, or Joachim Patinir. But they were actually very late compared to frescoes of the Cycladic civilisation, some three millenia before.

March 24, 2015 Painting
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