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All the fashion: 1 Seamstress

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View by many as the start of a slippery slope to prostitution, dressmaking demanded long hours of work in return for a pittance/

January 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 13 Hair in secular paintings

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From Venus covering herself with her hair, to combing through the hair for nits and lice. Artists include Botticelli, Rossetti and Degas.

November 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A moment in time: clocks and time in paintings 2

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From Rebecca Solomon’s Appointment (1861), through Cézanne’s clock without any hands, to Christian Krohg’s at almost midnight.

October 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Portrait of the artist’s wife 2

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More wives from Raffaela Zeppa, through Lovis Corinth’s Charlotte Berend, to Pierre Bonnard’s Marthe, plus two husbands.

October 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 8: Rags and tatters

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Paintings showing the ragged tatters work by peasants and labourers, from social realism and Naturalism between 1850-90.

June 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Christmas Eve in paintings

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Paintings from around Europe and North America showing Christmas trees, decorations, family feasts, and Christmas markets.

December 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1921: 1 People

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Fine paintings from 1921, by John Collier, Christian Krohg, Félix Vallotton, Maurice Denis and others.

December 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Sailing by: yachts in paintings 1

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In 1826, the world’s first sailing regatta for leisure craft was held. Twenty-five years later, the America’s Cup was inaugurated. Paintings show the rising popularity of yachting.

December 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Selfies: self-portraits to cherish 2

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Two by Edvard Munch, and by Lovis Corinth, Gabriel von Max with one of his monkeys, Egon Schiele with his family, the elderly Christian Krohg, and more.

June 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

So to bed: paintings of beds 1

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Many of our lives start and end in them, and between we spend at least a third of our life in bed. Paintings from Delacroix to Ravilious.

May 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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