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A short history of animal painting 1

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From cave paintings 36,000 years ago, through Paulus Potter in the Dutch Golden Age, to Oudry’s fables and racehorses of the early 19th century.

March 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Thatched Cottages 1

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Once the mark of rural poverty, thatched roofs were common throughout the countryside of Europe. Here are some up to the 1890s.

February 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of guinea pigs and goldfish

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Introduced to Europe from the New World in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I loved them, and Jan Brueghel the elder and his son included them in many of their paintings.

January 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

British landscape painting before Turner: the 18th century

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Gainsborough, Richard Wilson, Alexander Cozens, Thomas Jones, George Morland – establishing landscape painting in the 18th century.

April 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

On the road: Itinerants and travellers in paintings 1

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Bosch’s two wayfarers, Courbet’s Stone Breakers, and wonderful paintings by Brett, Troyon and Ford Madox Brown show those who lived on the road.

October 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the end of slavery

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Some artists not only spoke out against slavery and racism, but painted about it. Here’s a small selection of works by Turner, Eakins, Tanner, Biard and Morland.

July 10, 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

River power: Paintings of watermills 1

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From Dürer in about 1500, through van Ruisdael, Hobbema, Vernet, Girtin, to Constable watermills were popular in landscape art.

May 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Rolling Thunder: lightning in the landscape

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Superb paintings of lightning storms by Giorgione, Poussin, Delacroix, Constable, Bierstadt, Rousseau, Klimt, Bonnard, and Tom Thomson.

June 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pigment: A white less toxic, Chinese white

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It’s not Chinese, and for centuries was ignored, as lead white was preferred. It came into use during the 19th century, and is seen in paintings by Friedrich, Cézanne, van Gogh, Klimt, and Hodler.

April 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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