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Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Muses and Models 2

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The daughter of a Jamaican slave, William Morris’s wife, three Greek cousins known as the Three Graces – all muses and models for Pre-Raphaelites.

November 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Muses and Models 1

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Great Pre-Raphaelite women didn’t stand behind their partners, but in front of them, as their muses and models. Masterpieces with two stories to tell.

November 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Whiskers: beards in paintings 1

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Beards on Father Time, river gods, God the Father, ancient mariners, and lots and lots of artists, especially the Nabis.

July 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Gods of the Week: Chronos and Aion (Time)

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Father Time, a grey-haired old man with a beard, wearing ultramarine blue, and holding a scythe and hourglass.

May 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

… or Pre-Raphaelite

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Why did the Pre-Raphaelites want to return to the ‘purity’ of painting before Raphael? Did they succeed?

April 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A Blossom Festival in paintings 1

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Reduced to viewing the blossom online? Here are wonderful paintings of tree blossom from Millais, Sisley, van Gogh and others.

March 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Where? Maps and charts in paintings 2

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From Savage’s portrait of the Washington family, through James Tissot’s boring old soldiers, coming full circle with a modern map of Dante’s Purgatory.

February 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Puzzles for the people

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Besieged with inquiries from people who couldn’t sleep, Yeames judged a contest to explain his painting. It was clear that even he didn’t know the answer.

September 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Refinement

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Becoming more popular in the late 1880s and early 1890s, ‘problem pictures’ from Marie Spartali Stillman, Henrietta Rae, Millais, and others.

August 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Fame

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Fine examples from Millais, Berthold Woltze, Yeames, William Quiller Orchardson, and Degas.

August 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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