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Sheer Delight 1: Classical folds

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Classical and mediaeval dress was simple, and not tailored much until after 1000 CE. Painters were also constrained by fresco and egg tempera.

April 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Easter: Crucifixion

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A staple product of many pro painters in western Europe for over half a millennium, and required by every church and chapel.

April 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paint fast, paint slow

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From 15 minutes to sketch a passing thunderstorm in oils, to more than a year for several masterworks of the 19th century.

February 20, 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

Art and Science: Introduction to a new series

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From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.

December 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: Contents

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An overview and contents of the articles outlining the history of the Italian Renaissance, centred on paintings from Florence.

May 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: A timeline in paintings

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A timeline of milestone paintings, first surviving examples of the achievements of the Italian Renaissance, from 1320-1596.

May 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: Manuals and learning

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The significance of Alberti’s textbook on painting and simplified perspective, followed by Piero’s account of perspective, and Vasari’s new history of painting.

May 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: The rise of narrative painting

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In Florence, stories told in paintings became increasingly secular, and ingeniously integrated multiple scenes from the single story into one painting.

April 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: Was perspective essential to the Renaissance?

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For over a century, Italian painters had strived to achieve coherent perspective projection, but it was until about 1420 that this was achieved. How essential was it?

March 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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