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Paintings of the most famous piazza in the world: to 1840

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From Bellini in 1496, through Canaletto, to JMW Turner in 1840, views of Piazza San Marco in Venice.

June 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 7 Strange landscapes

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Hodler’s Parallelist paintings, and more than 30 of the paintings of Paul Cézanne depart from the basic optical principles of reflections. Why?

June 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Painters: Viktor Zarubin

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Among 15 works shown here are two of Sviatohirsk Monastery, destroyed by Bolsheviks after October Revolution of 1917, and shelled into ruins in 2022.

May 30, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 6 Reflections in the landscape

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Optical principles are straightforward, but can become extremely complex in practice. Examples from Jan van Eyck to Hodler and Signac.

May 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend on the Isle of Wight in paintings 2

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Paintings by Marie Spartali Stillman, Philip Wilson Steer, Paul Helleu, and William Dyce, and photography by Julia Margaret Cameron.

May 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend on the Isle of Wight in paintings 1

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Paintings by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, William Dyce, John Brett, Whistler, Berthe Morisot and others.

May 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 4 Cast shadows in landscapes

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How to paint a landscape with faithful and coherent cast shadows, why most painters don’t do so, and a few get it wrong.

May 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Painters: Serhii Svitoslavskyi

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A prolific landscape painter who taught key members of the avant garde. He was also a founding supporter of Kyiv Zoo.

May 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Into the Arctic: A celebration of the paintings of William Bradford 2

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In 1869 he sailed on board ‘Panther’ on an expedition to Greenland and the Arctic. Among his subsequent commissioned paintings was one for Queen Victoria.

April 30, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Into the Arctic: A celebration of the paintings of William Bradford 1

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In the 1850s and 60s he was a successful marine artist, working in whaling ports such as Fairhaven, before moving to Boston.

April 29, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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