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history of painting

Reading Visual Art: 210 Parrot B

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Parrots in still life paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, accompanying a Turkish page, in English summer, or passing Pierre Bonnard in Saint Tropez.

May 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 209 Parrot A

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Parrots as extras in myths, witnessing Eve taking the apple from the serpent, and as companions to a succession of beautiful women.

May 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 70 Romulus and the founding of Rome

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Romulus ploughs the boundary of the city of Rome, then defeats the Sabine king Tatius, marries his daughter, and is eventually taken to be the god Quirinus.

May 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Landscapes of Spain: The twentieth century

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Landscapes by artists from the USA, Denmark, Wales, Japan, and England, together with locals Muñoz Degrain, Joaquín Sorolla and Enrique Simonet.

May 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Landscapes of Spain: The nineteenth century

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Many aspiring painters visited the Prado in Madrid to study its collection of works by the masters. Here are some views of Spain they and its locals painted.

May 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

The bicentenary of James Collinson, least-known Pre-Raphaelite painter

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One of the four painters in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who has almost vanished. Works on emigration, literacy and a couple of open narratives.

May 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 208 Friezes B

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More painted friezes from Gustav Klimt, Ferdinand Hodler, Evelyn De Morgan, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others.

May 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 207 Friezes A

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Paintings mimicking an architectural frieze, with figures flattened into a plane parallel to the picture plane. Used deliberately by Ferdinand Hodler and others.

May 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 69 Vertumnus and Pomona

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The god of the seasons and gardens falls in love with a devoted gardener, but can’t woo her successfully when posing as someone else.

May 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Interiors by Design: Music rooms

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The sound of music from Vermeer, Menzel, James Tissot, Hanna Pauli, Edouard Vuillard and others, from palaces to the homes of the middle class.

May 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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