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Memling

The Passion Complete: Telling the whole story 1

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Few paintings attempt to tell the full story of the Passion. Here are remarkable works by Duccio, Hans Memling, and Hieronymus Bosch.

April 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Is this a racist image, or is there a more complex account?

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Isn’t that a horrific example of racism: a white man standing on the head of a Black man? Not when you read the image carefully.

July 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting in 4 dimensions: Renaissance Passions

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Telling a more complex story such as the Passion is more demanding. This traces how it broke out of frames, ultimately into Tintoretto’s masterpiece.

February 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The story of painted narrative 1

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Easily told in words, stories are harder to paint. Here are five main methods used, explained and shown in examples from the masters.

February 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Hell in paintings

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Deep underground, Satan and his demons are torturing and tormenting naked people. If you don’t live an exemplary life, that may be what you get in return.

March 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Two Scenes in One Painting: multiplex narrative from the Romans to 1500

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Showing two or more scenes from the same story in a single painting (multiplex narrative) is common, effective, and good art. Examples from Masaccio, Memling, Bosch, and more.

August 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Bathsheba and King David: 1 The standard account

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The story of Bathsheba and King David involves adultery and murder, and ultimately the triumph of power not virtue. Early paintings up to Artemisia Gentileschi.

August 18, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Annunciation, old and more innovative

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In the hands, and brushes, of great artists, a religious set-piece becomes a succession of marvellous and highly innovative paintings.

December 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Easter in Paintings: From Gethsemane to the Tomb

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A selection of paintings by Memling, Bosch, Blake, Tissot, Corinth, and others to mark Easter.

April 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: who killed John the Baptist? 1 Herodias

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Salome has become a femme fatale, the author of John the Baptist’s death, and a potent erotic symbol. But that was not the original story.

January 4, 2017 General, Language, Painting

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