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Reading visual art: 44 What’s wrong in that painting? 2

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More paintings with strange incongruities, this time from Arnold Böcklin’s Sirens to the Surrealism of Paul Nash.

March 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ondine, her curse and breathing

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Invented by Paracelsus and popularised in a novella, poems and plays, Ondine became popular in painting, then in 1962 in medicine.

December 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 20 The face covered

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Before we masked up for Covid, covering the face had connotations. Here they’re explored, from the niqāb and widow’s veil to the aversion that makes us voyeur.

December 16, 2022 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

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 16: Hamlet 3

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Paintings of the death of Ophelia from 1889 to 1910, including works by Waterhouse, Odilon Redon, and others.

September 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Crème de la Crème: Winners of the Prix de Rome for painting 2

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The Prix de Rome changed in the 19th century. Its subjects became more obscure, and its successes few and far between.

July 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Likeness of Truth 2

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Three paintings within 5 years, usually claimed to be responses to the Dreyfus Affair. But one was much more about modern art and photography.

June 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Hestia (Vesta) and her virgins

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A goddess almost never painted, but her priestesses, the Vestal Virgins, were far more popular. A small selection, ending in one of Gêrome’s grandest arena paintings.

September 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 2

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Paintings of women covering their faces in embarrassment by Murillo, Gérôme, Corinth, and others.

June 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Only When I Laugh: laughter in paintings 1

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Ever noticed how stern everyone looks in paintings? Here are some exceptions from Frans Hals, Murillo, Vermeer and others.

June 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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