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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

A history of history painting after 1800: 1870 on

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Following the Paris Commune of 1871, history painters resorted to indirect reference in paintings of obscure episodes in mediaeval history.

March 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Last History Painter: In memoriam Jean-Paul Laurens 2

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More extraordinary tales from French and European history told in his paintings.

March 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Last History Painter: In memoriam Jean-Paul Laurens 1

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He was probably the last traditional history painter in Europe. This selection of his works is accompanied by full explanations of the history behind each.

March 22, 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

A History of Rome in Paintings: 16 Disaster and death

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A battle in which the Romans were overwhelmingly defeated, used later as an icon of German nationalism. And the vicious murder of the wife of the emperor Claudius.

November 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of reading and books 3: Tranquil or dangerous

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More women reading, from Dante’s beloved Beatrice to Charlotte Corday, who was psyching herself up with Plutarch’s Lives before murdering Marat in his bath.

November 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 13 Hail Caesar

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Caesar and Cleopatra in Egypt, the suicide of Cato the Younger, Caesar’s triumphs, and the development of a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.

November 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Henri Martin: the Divisionist Symbolist 3

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At the start of the 20th century, he painted huge canvases for major public buildings, including a series for Toulouse’s palatial capitol.

June 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Henri Martin: the Divisionist Symbolist 1

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Painting Symbolist works in Divisionist style, he’s normally excluded from both movements, despite his success at the time.

June 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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