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Klimt

Life is Short: 2 Painters killed in pandemics

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Titian died of the plague, and Austrian artists were badly affected by the influenza pandemic of 1918, losing both Klimt and Schiele.

January 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Art in Painting: 3 Cameras

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Did Vermeer use a camera obscura? What went wrong with Impressionist oil sketches? When did Klimt paint from photographs? Does any of this really detract from the art in a painting?

December 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Athena (Minerva)

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Wisdom, crafts including weaving, and warfare, she’s a popular figure in paintings from Mantegna to Klimt, and a contestant in the Judgement of Paris.

October 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying 8: Post-Impressionism

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Paintings of the sky by Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Klimt, Cézanne, Schiele, Paul Nash and others.

September 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The cypress tree in paintings 2

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More paintings of cypresses by Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Modigliani, and Gustav Klimt.

August 16, 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

Goddesses of the Week: The Erinyes (Furies)

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Paintings by Klimt, Bouguereau, Moreau, von Stuck, and John Singer Sargent’s last vast masterpiece in Boston.

June 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the week: Thanatos (Death)

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Rarely painted, particularly in classical form, until the 19th century, the Grim Reaper is based on Father Time, not Thanatos.

April 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Crown Jewels: Precious stones in paintings 2

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More jewels and jewellery, including a portrait of Queen Victoria, Salome, Helen of Troy, and two of Klimt’s golden girls.

September 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Rolling Thunder: lightning in the landscape

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Superb paintings of lightning storms by Giorgione, Poussin, Delacroix, Constable, Bierstadt, Rousseau, Klimt, Bonnard, and Tom Thomson.

June 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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