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Khnopff

February fill dyke in paintings: Other floods

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The myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and others, painted by Rubens, Poussin, John Martin, and real floods by Alfred Sisley.

February 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 35 Chimeras and devils

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In quest of the Chimera from classical mythology in paintings of Michelangelo, Bosch, de Vos and others.

February 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Fernand Khnopff

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A major Symbolist painter whose enigmatic paintings became popular in the salons of Les XX at the end of the 19th century.

November 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Gloves in paintings: 2 Fashion

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Gloves have long been objects of fashion: paintings from Fantin-Latour’s portrait of Manet to Khnopff’s mysterious symbolism.

March 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Next year in paintings: Ford Madox Brown, Antoine Watteau, Fernand Khnopff

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A look forward to the eclectic collection of painters whose anniversaries I’ll be marking here, and a glimpse of some of the paintings to come. Happy New Year!

January 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting sculpture: 1 Senses, rude Romans, and sculptors

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Although painting and sculpture are closely allied, it’s curious to depict sculpture in painting. Examples range from early grisailles to ribald depictions of the Roman god Priapus.

October 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: Graiai and Gorgons

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Sisters at the heart of the myth of Perseus, Medusa and Andromeda. In painting by Burne-Jones, Caravaggio, Malczewski, Klimt and others.

July 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Soul and Light: the paintings of Louis Welden Hawkins 2

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Some of his more popular Symbolist paintings from the 1890s, a portrait of a humanitarian journalist, and more.

June 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Symbolist painting at the time of the Salons de la Rose + Croix 2

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Early in 1896, several artists who exhibited at the Salons set up a rival exhibition. The following year was the last of Péladan’s and his movements petered out by the twentieth century.

May 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Symbolist painting at the time of the Salons de la Rose + Croix 1

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The apogee of the Symbolist Movement in France was run by its self-appointed high priest, Joséphin Péladan. A selection of paintings from its early years to 1894.

May 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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