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Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 25: The Taming of the Shrew

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Popular comedy about a man who marries and shrew and sets about trying to tame her. Frequently painted.

November 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 19: Twelfth Night

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Twin brother and sister are shipwrecked. She disguises herself as a eunuch, and has a noblewoman fall in love with her. Then it gets even more confusing. Great comedy.

October 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 11: The Merry Wives of Windsor

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A traditional English farce, starring Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeare’s favourite characters, who sets out to seduce two married women.

August 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of guinea pigs and goldfish

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Introduced to Europe from the New World in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I loved them, and Jan Brueghel the elder and his son included them in many of their paintings.

January 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam: George Dunlop Leslie, one of the St John’s Wood Clique

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He specialised in ‘light genre’ paintings, not-to-serious domestic scenes, painted in fine detail, and was praised by Ruskin.

February 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Purgatory 10 An overview of Purgatory

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A succinct summary of Dante’s ascent of the mountain-island of Purgatory, with the best of the paintings from Blake to Rossetti.

August 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Purgatory 8 Matelda, Beatrice in her chariot

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Some of the finest paintings of all Dante’s work: Waterhouse, William Blake and others show the arrival of Beatrice in her chariot.

July 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Scottish Highlands and Islands on canvas: 2, visiting artists

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Visits to Scotland became popular among artists in the nineteenth century. Here are wonderful paintings by AW Hunt, Gustave Doré, Rosa Bonheur, Hans Gude, and others.

September 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting
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