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Paintings in a Country Churchyard 2

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Churchyards and graveyards in the darker side of French history, in Egypt, and in deep countryside by the fjords of Norway.

January 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Dust to dust: Paintings of funerals 2

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Response to Courbet’s ‘Burial at Ornans’, a curious work by Edvard Munch, and very disturbing thoughts about burial alive.

August 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Finale: The Exposition Universelle of 1900, 2

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More superb paintings from the end of the nineteenth century, including the amazing Martin’s unique merger of Symbolism and Divisionism.

June 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of lunch

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Paintings by Velázquez, Manet, Renoir, Sorolla, and others.

December 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Bring on the Elephants – in European painting 2

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In paintings by JMW Turner, Gustave Moreau, Lovis Corinth and others. Strangely so many put into danger or conflict by humans.

October 27, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Circus: Spectacle

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From the eighteenth century, organised circuses toured cities, and some were established to operate year-round. Here are paintings to make you gasp with wonder.

April 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 7 Decline

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A lot changed in painting in the 1890s. Within just a few years, Naturalism went from being all the rage to old hat. These paintings show how.

January 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 6 Science and technology

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From physicists to photographers developing their plates, Naturalist painters recorded the science and technology of their time.

January 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Out of the Shadows: Form and figures

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Was painting ‘invented’ by the maid of Corinth? What is ‘shadow play’, and how have painters extended it to religious works? A short history of shadows in painting.

November 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Alexandre Cabanel and his pupils: the pupils

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Eight of Cabanel’s most precocious and brilliant pupils. Only one won the Prix de Rome, and the others went on to develop Naturalist art. Was Cabanel the father of this new movement?

August 5, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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