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Some selected reading about Covid-19 and pandemics

Papers, books and websites which you may find informative about controversial aspects of Covid-19 and its prevention.

October 17, 2020 General, Life, Technology

Benjamin West and Modern History 5

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His last chance to establish ‘modern’ history painting, with the Napoleonic Wars and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson.

March 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Benjamin West and Modern History 4

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With ‘modern history paintings’ long behind him, he turned to literary subjects and classical histories once more.

February 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Benjamin West and Modern History 3

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He took a break from ‘modern history’ painting in the 1780s, making religious works and even some landscapes, including some unknown gems.

February 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Benjamin West and Modern History 2

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Includes his record of William Penn making his treaty with the Lenape, a strange family portrait, and an obscure naval battle.

February 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Benjamin West and Modern History 1

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A Pennsylvanian, he wanted to be a great history painter. When returning from a visit to Italy, he stopped off in London, and stayed there almost 60 years.

February 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Not a Pre-Raphaelite History Painter: Ford Madox Brown 1861-90

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His most famous painting, ‘Work’, inspired by the ideas of Thomas Carlyle, and a possibly unique example of multiplex narrative after William Hogarth.

January 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Not a Pre-Raphaelite History Painter: Ford Madox Brown 1855-60

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By 1852, he wasn’t making progress. The Pre-Raphaelite sculptor emigrated to Australia, and Brown thought seriously about going to India. Instead he painted ‘The Last of England’.

January 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Not a Pre-Raphaelite History Painter: Ford Madox Brown 1842-55

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From Byron’s Faustian play ‘Manfred’ to the effects on family of the Crimean War, his paintings were often richly narrative, and only gently Pre-Raphaelite.

January 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Distant Past: Charlemagne 2

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Charles knelt at the altar in front of the Pope on Christmas Day 800. When he rose, he was wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor. A surprise perhaps?

September 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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