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Reading visual art: 38 Fables in the 19th century

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Examples of painted fables from the 19th century, from Landseer, Millet, Moreau, Klimt, Morisot, Hodler, and Pierre Bonnard.

February 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Vienna Secession 2: Von Alt to Mucha

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Other members of the Vienna Secession, including Alois Delug, Maximilian Lenz, Hugo Baar, Kolo Moser, and Alphonse Mucha.

July 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Vienna Secession 1: Gustav Klimt

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As first president of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was largely responsible for its influence and endurance.

July 9, 2022 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

Landscape Composition: 10 Through a lens

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From panoramas to wide-angle views, the optical effects of Naturalist paintings, depth-of-field effects, and loss of depth through a telescope.

November 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A life of Perseus in paintings 1

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From conception in the rape of Danaë by Zeus, to his mission to bring the head of Medusa to King Polydectes, paintings by Klimt, Burne-Jones, and others.

September 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How the Other Half Live: paintings of stately homes 2

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Chillon Castle, Lake Geneva, Éragny Manor, a mansion in New York City, Kelmscott Manor (home of William Morris), Florence Griswold’s home in Old Lyme, CT, and more.

July 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: The refused portrait

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Two portraits which were refused by their clients. One brought the painter’s revenge, the other almost proved the death of the artist.

June 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Léon Bakst, artist to the Ballets Russes

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Trained in St Petersburg, he spent much of his career in Paris, where he designed stage sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes. But there was more to his art.

January 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Asclepius (Aesculapius)

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God of medicine and the healing arts, he has several unusual myths and features, including a strange relationship with a snake when he was a child.

January 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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