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Giorgione

Aerial Perspective in paintings: 1 Ground rules

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The way that distant hills fade in contrast, detail and colour, and how their hue shifts towards cooler colours. From Antonello (1475) to Thomas Girtin.

November 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of reading and books 1: Learning and devotion

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Reading and the book in paintings from 1235 to 1849, a period in which they were mainly associated with religious devotion.

November 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying 9: A brief history

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The story of landscape paintings which are dominated by the sky, from the Dutch Golden Age to Surrealism.

September 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying: 1 Big skies, low countries

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Early landscapes constrained the sky to a backdrop. With Rubens and the Golden Age landscape painters it became the subject in its own right.

July 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Aphrodite (Venus)

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Often an excuse for a classical nude, at least two paintings show her clothed, and many reveal her love affairs.

July 1, 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

Raphael and Painting: 1 The state of the art in 1500

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At the time, Raphael was recognised as one of the most important artists in the whole Renaissance. Here’s his starting point, set by Giorgione, Perugino and others.

January 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Caves 1: Sacred to Mythical

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Before folk history changed with the concept of human evolution, caves were sacred places inhabited by hermits, or figures from myth.

July 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pushing it back: depth and repoussoir 1

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Compositional techniques usually involving foreground trees which increase the depth of a picture. Explained and illustrated.

June 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Rolling Thunder: lightning in the landscape

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Superb paintings of lightning storms by Giorgione, Poussin, Delacroix, Constable, Bierstadt, Rousseau, Klimt, Bonnard, and Tom Thomson.

June 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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