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Paintings of Egypt 2: Scenery

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Views painted of Cairo and other parts of Egypt, including Thomas Seddon, Alberto Pasini, Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Australian Impressionist Arthur Streeton.

December 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Léon Bonnat: Painter 1

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A prodigious painter who made his name in 1869. After that he was a sought-after portraitist and a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

September 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Vasily Vereshchagin’s Travel Paintings

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One of the most travelled painters in history, here are views of Turkestan, India, western Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Japan.

August 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Perfect pastels by Jean-Étienne Liotard

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Applying his soft pastels to vellum, his paintings are hyper-realist in their fine detail. He was also an eccentric, living mostly in Turkish dress, and a renowned painter of portraits.

May 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Napoleon of Painting: the bicentenary of Théodore Chassériau 2

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Born 200 years ago today, he should have been one of the major artists of the 19th century, but died when he had only just turned 37.

September 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Napoleon of Painting: the bicentenary of Théodore Chassériau 1

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A pupil of JAD Ingres when he was only 11 years old, his first work exhibited at the Salon when he was only 16: a precocious and brilliant narrative artist.

September 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Alberto Pasini’s Oriental World, 2

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Although intricate in their detail, none of these paintings is larger than 90 cm in either dimension – and several are quite painterly in a miniature way.

June 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Alberto Pasini’s Oriental World, 1

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A pupil of the great Chassériau, he spent several years touring the Middle East with French diplomatic missions. Here are his paintings.

June 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Orientalism: the reality

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Those artists who did visit and paint the women of North Africa show very different pictures, here seen in depictions of the Ouled Naïl people.

January 7, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Orientalism: the fantasy

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Paintings of odalisques, slave markets, and Turkish baths became popular in the nineteenth century. What was the Orientalist fantasy, and why?

January 6, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

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