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Paintings of Florence: 1 History

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Paintings of the city of Florence recreating times past, from Dante’s meeting with Beatrice, to Lorenzo the Magnificent in the late 15th century.

February 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Legendary Lands 2

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We journey on, through Thomas Cole’s classical city, to the Garden of Armida, briefly to Paradise, past the submerged city of Ys, ending up in a Surrealist vision of the Dorset coast.

November 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Sophie Gengembre Anderson: Elaine of Astolat

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Very much a Modern Woman, she was in London during the height of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, when she painted her masterpiece of Elaine of Astolat.

October 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Here be Orcs and Sea Monsters in paintings

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Scenes from Perseus and Andromeda, and Orlando Furioso, by Veronese, Moreau, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

August 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 2 Etruscans

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Were they descended from survivors of the city of Troy, or perhaps they were Greeks? Did the Romans welcome or exterminate them?

August 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: the Hesperides

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Three to seven sisters who guard Hera’s golden apples in a land ‘to the west’, painted by Burne-Jones, Leighton, Turner, Sargent, and more.

May 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The horse with wings: 1 Pegasus

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From Mantegna and dancing Muses, through Rubens and Rochegrosse with the legend of Perseus, to a portrait by Odilon Redon.

March 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Decameron: Index to stories and the finest paintings

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The seven painted stories, with paintings by Mei, Millais, Leighton, Botticelli, Stillman, and Lancret, and links to each article.

January 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

William Powell Frith 2: Moral series

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After his greatest human panorama showing Paddington railway station, he painted two moralising series, similar to those of Hogarth.

January 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2018’s paintings and articles 2

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Review of paintings and related articles published here in the second half of 2018, starring Tintoretto, Gérôme. Bonnard, Schiele, and Poussin.

December 31, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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