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The Art in Painting: 1 art and craft

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Latest in a succession of techniques, AR can guide someone to draw, just the camera obscura, photography and projectors did. Do these detract from the art in a painting?

December 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Phaethon

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Known in one spectacular myth, in which he brings the chariot of the sun crashing down to scorch the earth. Paintings by Poussin, Tintoretto, Rubens and Moreau.

December 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 16 Disaster and death

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A battle in which the Romans were overwhelmingly defeated, used later as an icon of German nationalism. And the vicious murder of the wife of the emperor Claudius.

November 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Legendary Lands 2

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We journey on, through Thomas Cole’s classical city, to the Garden of Armida, briefly to Paradise, past the submerged city of Ys, ending up in a Surrealist vision of the Dorset coast.

November 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Apollo

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Son of Zeus and Leto, he has broad responsibilities from archery to prophecy. Popular in paintings, examples from Raphael, Moreau, and others masters.

October 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Prodigal’s Return in paintings 2

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Paintings from the late 19th century, including the best of John Collier’s ‘problem pictures’, and whole series from James Tissot. Was he seeking his own redemption?

October 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Gods of the Week: Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus

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Atlas, who bears the heavens on his shoulders. Prometheus, who deceived Zeus and was bound by chains as punishment, an eagle eating his liver each day. Epimetheus, who married Pandora.

September 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Here be Orcs and Sea Monsters in paintings

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Scenes from Perseus and Andromeda, and Orlando Furioso, by Veronese, Moreau, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

August 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Here be Monsters in paintings

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Sphinxes by Ingres and Moreau, Watts’ Minotaur, Blake’s Cerberus, Hieronymus Bosch, and more monsters.

August 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Here be Dragons in paintings

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A celebration of painted dragons in European art, including Moreau, William Blake, Raphael, Tintoretto and others.

August 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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