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Gorgeous Landscapes 2: Lessing to Hodler

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More gorges from Edward Lear, Frederic Church, Signac, Thoma, Hodler and others, from the Alps to Iran.

June 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Good knights in paintings 1

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Paintings of knights in armour from Raphael in c 1502, through Ingres’ rescue of Angelica, to Arthurian legends and the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

November 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings in a Country Churchyard 1

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Churchyards and graveyards in the art of William Hogarth, Caspar David Friedrich, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Louis Welden Hawkins, and others.

January 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 3

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The figure appears in later landscapes, including one by Martín Rico, and a pastel by Millet, before being radically revised by Ferdinand Hodler.

August 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Death on the Wing: Crows and ravens in paintings 1

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Escorts of valkyries, the bird of the gibbet, and seeker of carrion: crows and ravens are associated with death, magic, and more.

November 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Bridges in paintings: Beyond Impressionism

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Modern bridges and more modern paintings from Vallotton, Bonnard, Schiele, and most prominently Joseph Stella’s ‘Brooklyn Bridge’.

July 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 3 Jerusalem

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The Crusaders marched quickly down the Mediterranean coast, then turned inland to the Holy City, which they put under siege.

October 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Landscape with Castle: the paintings of Carl Friedrich Lessing, 2

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Wonderful ‘Gothic’ Romantic paintings of remoteness, religion, and rugged landscape from Germany in the 19th century. A very influential painter indeed.

September 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Landscape with Castle: the paintings of Carl Friedrich Lessing, 1

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Co-founder of the highly influential Düsseldorf School, he was influenced by Caspar David Friedrich, and Gothic Romantic fiction.

September 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Still scratching the surface: on the transience of computer ‘culture’

How many books about computing can compare with Aristotle’s Poetics, or the writing of Steven Pinker or Stephen Hawking?

March 15, 2016 General, Macs, Technology
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