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Channel Coasts: 2 France

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A journey along the coast of northern France, starting with Turner at Calais Pier, and ending in vivid colour on Ushant/Ouessant – in wonderful paintings.

August 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Staffs in paintings: 2 Shepherd’s crooks

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From the Adoration of the Shepherds to the Corydon Shepherd of Virgil’s Eclogues, they all had their crooks.

April 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam Eugène Burnand: Alpine meadows

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Trained with Gérôme in Paris, he painted fine rural landscapes of Alpine meadows, religious works, and used advanced optical effects.

February 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of reading and books 2: Woman reading

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From a naked woman devouring novels, through a class of young Breton girls, to Berthe Morisot’s and Lovis Corinth’s women reading.

November 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Harvest Home in paintings – gleaners

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Far from being the idyllic countryside, the gleaners who followed the harvesters brought a strong social message.

September 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Demeter (Ceres)

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Goddess of the harvest, food production, fertility and fecundity, paintings by Millet, Rubens, Elsheimer and others.

August 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 3

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The figure appears in later landscapes, including one by Martín Rico, and a pastel by Millet, before being radically revised by Ferdinand Hodler.

August 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Maids a-milking: Milkmaids in painting 2

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How to buy fresh milk in central London, what the Scythians lived on, and more. Paintings by Millet, Delacroix, Winslow Homer, and others.

May 31, 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

Faithful Friends: Cats in paintings

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Independent and aloof, cats train their humans and think that they’re still large and ferocious. Paintings from Carpaccio to Bonnard.

February 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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