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Painting the Merovingians: the bicentenary of Évariste Vital Luminais 2

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Two young men cast adrift on the River Seine, a king having his hair cut, and one of the finest and most haunting paintings of Psyche.

October 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Merovingians: the bicentenary of Évariste Vital Luminais 1

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He started painting popular equestrian scenes and social realist works, but after the Franco-Prussian War turned increasingly to old French history.

October 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

So to bed: paintings of beds 2

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The deathbed, hospital beds through the ages, and what we apparently get up to when we take a friend to bed.

May 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A history of history painting after 1800: 1870 on

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Following the Paris Commune of 1871, history painters resorted to indirect reference in paintings of obscure episodes in mediaeval history.

March 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Next year in paintings: Ford Madox Brown, Antoine Watteau, Fernand Khnopff

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A look forward to the eclectic collection of painters whose anniversaries I’ll be marking here, and a glimpse of some of the paintings to come. Happy New Year!

January 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Psyche

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Absent from Classical art, she first appears in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’, which was written in the 2nd century. Wonderful paintings, particularly from women artists, of this novel.

November 23, 2020 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

Shining Light on the Dark Ages: paintings of Clovis and Merovingians

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As Europe slid into the Dark Ages, one king emerged to rule much of what is now France, with one religion, a code of law, and its capital in Paris.

October 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: classics go Aesthetic, 1

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After his reputation was shredded by Roger Fry, Alma-Tadema was almost forgotten. Why should his work now be revived?

October 26, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Évariste Luminais and the Franks

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Unique paintings of the ancient history of France, in response to dreadful defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.

March 25, 2016 General, Painting
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