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Folk Tales in Paintings: Lady Godiva and Wanda

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The curious story of the countess who rode naked through the city of Coventry to win its people a cut in taxes, and Wanda of Kraków.

May 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 13 The Sack of Troy

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The Greeks destroy Troy, then sail away until caught in gales. Sheltering off Thrace Achilles ghost demands human sacrifice.

May 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Hero and Leander

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Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero.

May 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the flatlands of England 2

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John Crome, a quiet innovator and founder of the Norwich School, Frederick Sandys, Thomas Girtin and others in Norfolk and Lincoln.

April 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 33 Picture in a picture, landscapes

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Cameo views of landscapes were common practice during the Renaissance, and also had value in locating the primary view.

February 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam John William Godward: Fleeting beauty 2

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When he returned to London from Italy in 1921, he became increasingly distressed with the advent of modernism, and died the following year, a century ago today.

December 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam John William Godward: Fleeting beauty 1

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He died a century ago, perhaps the last painter to paint art for art’s sake, avoiding narrative or meaning. Paintings from the first half of his career.

December 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Knights in Shining Armour: in memoriam Edmund Blair Leighton 2

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His paintings are set in mediaeval times, with tales of chivalry, or in ‘Regency’ times, with tricorn hats and jovial men selling ribbons door-to-door.

September 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Knights in Shining Armour: in memoriam Edmund Blair Leighton 1

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Often considered a Pre-Raphaelite, with common themes, he was an academic outsider whose photo-real paintings are finely crafted fantasies.

August 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Dolce Far Niente: Paintings of blissful laziness 2

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Two specialists in the sub-genre, John Godward and John Singer Sargent, show us how to chill out in their paintings.

July 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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