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Reading visual art: 20 The face covered

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Before we masked up for Covid, covering the face had connotations. Here they’re explored, from the niqāb and widow’s veil to the aversion that makes us voyeur.

December 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Animals Went in Two by Two in paintings

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Raphael and Tintoretto creations, Noah’s thanksgiving, Bosch, and two wonderful paintings of Orpheus and the Animals.

February 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 2

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Paintings of women covering their faces in embarrassment by Murillo, Gérôme, Corinth, and others.

June 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 1

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It’s our faces, more than any other part of the body, that make us human. Paintings of veiled and masked faces by Pelez, Morelli and others.

June 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings for our time: Death and the Maiden

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A relatively common motif, it started with the peculiar association of death and the erotic, then changed in the late 19th century.

January 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Surprise, surprise: Paintings with a twist 2

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More paintings of surprise, by Gericault, Gérôme, Regnault, Bastien-Lepage, Morelli, and others.

June 3, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Over the Rainbow: getting the colours right

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Rainbows are one of nature’s grand spectacles. How careful, then, have painters been to get their colours in the ‘right’ order?

March 4, 2017 General, Painting

Highlights of the painting articles of 2016

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A look back at some of the series and some surprises which you might have missed over the last year.

December 31, 2016 General, Life, Painting

John Singer Sargent’s ‘Gassed’: more allusion than fact?

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There’s a lot more to this painting than first meets the eye: a bit of Brueghel, some Leighton, and even some Signorelli.

November 27, 2016 General, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: The Road to Damascus and the Conversion of Saint Paul

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Why did it take over 300 years to solve a compositional problem, and tell such a simple story?

August 6, 2016 General, Painting

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