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Paradise Lost: Book 7 in paintings and illustrations

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Account of the creation of the world, and of Adam in God’s image. Illustrations by William Blake, Gustave Doré and John Martin.

June 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: The Birth of Aphrodite (Venus Anadyomene)

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Some of the greatest figurative artists including Botticelli, Titian, Poussin, Boucher, Ingres, Moreau, and Joseph Stella.

June 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 3

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Why would an artist compose a painting to hide the face? Examples by Degas, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent and others. It’s our faces that make us human.

June 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 2

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Paintings of women covering their faces in embarrassment by Murillo, Gérôme, Corinth, and others.

June 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 1

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It’s our faces, more than any other part of the body, that make us human. Paintings of veiled and masked faces by Pelez, Morelli and others.

June 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The context of Anders Zorn’s paintings in Sweden and beyond

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One of the three great masters who took realist oil painting into the twentieth century: we commemorate the centenary of his death in August.

June 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The critic as patron: John Brett’s Pre-Raphaelite landscapes

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How one critic established the success of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, but set its landscape painters an impossible challenge.

June 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paradise Lost: Book 6 in paintings and illustrations

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In which Raphael tells Adam and Eve how Satan was defeated and cast out of heaven, falling with his rebel angels into Hell.

June 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Gods of the Week: Uranus and Cronos (Saturn)

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Primordial deity of the sky, and his son, better known by his Latin name of Saturn, and strange stories painted by Rubens, Goya and others.

June 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Only When I Laugh: laughter in paintings 2

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Several wonderful paintings by Lovis Corinth, a couple by Franz von Stuck and Robert Henri – let laughter commence.

June 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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