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Changing Paintings: 66 The tale of Polyphemus

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A survivor from Ulysses’ crew gives a brief account of the encounter between Ulysses and the Cyclops Polyphemus, and its outcome.

April 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the bicentenary of Henry Fuseli’s death: 2

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More rich narratives, including Titania and Bottom, Falstaff, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Odysseus, Satan, Lady Macbeth, and Fairy Mab.

April 16, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the bicentenary of Henry Fuseli’s death: 1

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In 1781 he painted 3 masterpieces, of the suicide of Queen Dido of Carthage, ‘The Nightmare’ still famous today, and the Dream of Queen Katharine of Aragon.

April 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 6 Post-war

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His major commission of the First World War, ‘Gassed’, and final large masterpieces for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

April 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 5 War

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From the marble quarry at Carrara, through Alpine passes to Lake Garda, over to alligators near Miami, and scenes from the First World War in England.

April 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Interiors by Design: Screens

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Paintings by Hogarth, Whistler, Lucy Rossetti, Orchardson, Elihu Vedder, Dagnan-Bouveret, Bonnard, and Willian McGregor Paxton.

April 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 4 Travels

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After he had closed his portrait studio in 1907, travelling with friends, more watercolour views of Venice, and a look at some of his sophisticated techniques.

April 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 3 Venice

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A portrait with unusual references, many bravura watercolours of Venice and his travels through the Alps on the way, and a short visit to North Africa.

April 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 65 The Cumaean Sibyl

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Aeneas’ ill-fated and brief affair with Queen Dido of Carthage, past the Cercopes who had been turned into monkeys, and on to the Sibyl to take him to visit his father in the underworld.

April 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

All aboard: a century of painting railways 2

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With Frits Thaulow in Norway, van Gogh in Arles, the construction of what is now the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and what can happen a railway carriage.

April 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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