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Glue tempera paintings 1: Renaissance and William Blake

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Paints using glue as their binder, instead of oil, were popular in the early Renaissance before being replaced by oils. William Blake revived them around 1800.

July 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting in Italy around 1500 1: Tradition

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Major works from around 1500 by Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, Botticelli, Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, and Fra Bartolomeo.

April 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 1 Geometry and realism

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How an architect, two great masters of painting, and the author of an early textbook on painting applied geometric optics to change painting.

December 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: How patrons shaped the Renaissance

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It was the patrons who funded, enabled, and occasionally directed the movement towards realism and secular subjects, and developed the genres.

March 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Cybele (Magna Mater), Mother of the Gods

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An exotic import until the Romans enlisted her support against the Carthaginians, her chariot is drawn by a lion and lioness – who desecrated an old shrine.

February 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Legendary Lands 1

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With Umberto Eco as our guide, explore Parnassus, the Garden of Earthly Delights, Alcina’s island, Colchis, and the Garden of the Hesperides.

November 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 13 Hail Caesar

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Caesar and Cleopatra in Egypt, the suicide of Cato the Younger, Caesar’s triumphs, and the development of a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.

November 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Hermes (Mercury)

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Seldom shown in lead roles, superb paintings by masters including Botticelli, Blake, Renoir, and Velázquez, and one strange myth to finish.

November 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Athena (Minerva)

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Wisdom, crafts including weaving, and warfare, she’s a popular figure in paintings from Mantegna to Klimt, and a contestant in the Judgement of Paris.

October 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Hephaistos (Vulcan)

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Famous for discovering his wife Aphrodite making love with Ares, he is blacksmith to the gods, and selected mortals.

September 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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