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Reading visual art: 28 Peacock and dove

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Two birds associated with different beliefs: Hera or Juno’s peacocks, and the white dove as a physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

January 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 9 Gaze, looking towards

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Maternal love, Oedipus and the Sphinx, and a naked courtesan unveiled before a court of men, all demonstrate how important is gaze.

November 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Pastel painters: History and contents of the series

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From Robert Nanteuil’s first pastel portraits in the 1660s to Ants Laikmaa in 1929, a history of the greatest pastel painters and links to articles about individual artists.

August 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 6: Flesh and fashion

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Pastellist like Rosalba Carriera led the way in making marks to create the illusion of finely detailed fabrics. This contrasts with smooth and detailed faces.

May 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of drawn carts 2

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Two famous hay wains, Goya’s stone cart, horses and carts assisting a heavy steam crane in Paris, and carrying goods in the centre of New York in 1911.

January 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Adoration of the Shepherds

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The shepherds become more real and tatty from the Renaissance and Giorgione to Murillo and Bastien-Lepage.

December 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Painted Story of the Aeneid: 2 From Carthage to Apotheosis

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After Dido’s suicide, Aeneas takes a trip to the underworld, guided by the Cumaean Sibyl. He goes on to found the city of Lavinium, a precursor to Rome.

October 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Likeness of Truth 1

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From Apelles, in around 330 BCE, the personification of Truth has had particular importance to painters, in the faithfulness and accuracy of their work. Here she is.

June 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Staffs in paintings: 2 Shepherd’s crooks

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From the Adoration of the Shepherds to the Corydon Shepherd of Virgil’s Eclogues, they all had their crooks.

April 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Iris, the rainbow

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Not just a pretty atmospheric effect, she’s a messenger of the gods, and is involved in many myths. Superb paintings by Guérin, Fuseli and others.

February 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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