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When history is fiction: painted inventions of Pierre Guérin

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The fictional Marcus Sextus, Napoleon pardoning the rebels of Cairo, and Narcissus where he shouldn’t be: disinformation in history painting.

January 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 8: The scarlet woman

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Well known from language, the scarlet woman should be easy to read in paintings. But all that is scarlet isn’t who you’d expect.

June 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 7 Tragedy, Orestes 1

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The story of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War, who was murdered by his wife.

December 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: Contents

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A selection of masterpieces which were rejected by the person(s) who commissioned them, or from major exhibitions. Illustrated contents with links.

September 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Crème de la Crème: Winners of the Prix de Rome for painting 1

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Founded around 1666, the Prix de Rome was an annual contest for narrative painting. First prize was study at the French Academy in Rome.

July 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: The refused portrait

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Two portraits which were refused by their clients. One brought the painter’s revenge, the other almost proved the death of the artist.

June 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Eos (Aurora), the dawn

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Wonderful paintings by Reni, Fragonard, Evelyn De Morgan, Poussin, Rubens, and a very unusual late Fantin-Latour.

March 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Symbols in painting before Symbolism 1400-1800

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The use of symbols in paintings from the Renaissance to the start of the nineteenth century, with van Eyck, Rubens, Girodet, and others.

October 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Crown Jewels: Precious stones in paintings 2

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More jewels and jewellery, including a portrait of Queen Victoria, Salome, Helen of Troy, and two of Klimt’s golden girls.

September 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

From revenge at the Salon to the Nabis: the Robert-Fleurys 1

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Joseph-Nicolas taught his son Tony, who like his father was an academic history painter with a taste for human disasters. He also taught at the Académie Julian in Paris.

February 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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