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Landscape Composition: 9 One piazza, eight views

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A tough compositional challenge: a square that isn’t even rectangular, with unequal sides and a high tower. Solutions by Canaletto and other masters.

October 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Hot off the press: reportage in painting 1

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Dutch Golden Age brandjes, West’s failure, fires in Venice and Copenhagen, and the rivals John Constable and JMW Turner painting London on fire.

September 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

I Saw Three Ships: sailing ships in paintings 1

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From 1643 (Claude Lorrain), through Claude-Joseph Vernet and Turner to JC Dahl two centuries later.

November 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Bring on the Elephants – in European painting 1

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Painted by Bosch, the animal painter Paulus Potter, Charles Le Brun, and others. Best known from Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps.

October 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Bridges in paintings: Before Impressionism

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Bridges have had huge impact on man, but aren’t normally considered aesthetically attractive. Paintings from van Eyck to Jongkind show increasing interest among artists.

July 13, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Arteries of Industry: paintings of canals 2

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Canals from Sisley at the end of the 19th century, and paintings of Venice by Canaletto, Rico, and of course John Singer Sargent.

June 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 11 Erminia saves Tancred

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With an army from Egypt on its way, the crusaders have no time to lose. Rinaldo removes the spells preventing them from cutting timber, and they are soon assaulting the city of Jerusalem.

November 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 6 Erminia and the Shepherds

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The seductive sorceress Armida is quietly wreaking havoc among the crusaders besieging Jerusalem. Then Erminia leaves the city, in search of her love, the wounded warrior Tancred.

October 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 4 Clorinda saves Sophronia and Olindo

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The crusaders start their march down the Mediterranean coast towards Jerusalem. Gabriel appears to Godfrey, and a young couple are saved from being burned at the stake by a ‘pagan’ woman knight.

October 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 3 Jerusalem

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The Crusaders marched quickly down the Mediterranean coast, then turned inland to the Holy City, which they put under siege.

October 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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