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Rebirth: 1 Was there art before the Renaissance?

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First in a new series looking at Renaissance painting from Italy, centred on Florence, shows some of the masterpieces of the ‘gap’ before the Gothic.

February 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Odoardo Borrani’s histories and landscapes

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In 1855, he joined the Macchiaioli and painted small oil sketches en plein air, which he later turned into finished landscapes in the studio. And histories.

January 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Italian History and the Classics: the paintings of Giuseppe Sciuti

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The story of a Renaissance city-state on Sardinia, a good mother, and the state funeral of a great Greek general on Sicily – some of the paintings shown.

September 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Domenico Morelli

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A major influence in Italian art in the 1800s, he was highly skilled in telling stories, and solved problems which had troubled the Masters before.

July 30, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Ancient Egypt and Italy

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Narrative painting was popular and becoming increasingly sophisticated two millennia ago.

May 19, 2016 General, Painting

The Italian Impressionist: Giuseppe De Nittis – 4

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Conclusions: did he paint Impressions, and was he a member of the Impressionist group?

February 8, 2016 General, Painting

The Italian Impressionist: Giuseppe De Nittis – 3

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Another wonderful batch of what are most probably his paintings.

February 5, 2016 General, Painting

The Italian Impressionist: Giuseppe De Nittis – 2

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The final four and a half years of De Nittis’s career were busy, productive, and successful.

February 3, 2016 General, Painting

The Italian Impressionist: Giuseppe De Nittis – 1

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Almost forgotten today, he was technically brilliant, and a full-bore Impressionist. Here is his life and paintings to 1879.

February 1, 2016 General, Painting

Beyond the French Impressionists: 4 The Macchiaioli, Federico Zandomeneghi

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His richly colourful paintings of women are reminiscent of Renoir at his best, and some of his later studies of nudes appear to owe much to the influence of Degas.

May 10, 2015 Painting

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