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A History of Rome in Paintings: 19 More martyrs

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A saint banished to the island of Patmos, a history wound around a column, and a megalomaniac emperor strangled in his bath by a professional wrestler.

December 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Asleep in the painting 3: Homeless

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Exhausted and destitute figures asleep, by Christian Krohg, Ferdinand Hodler, Sorolla, Waterhouse, and others.

June 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Asleep in the painting 2: Fatigue

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More slumbering people painted by Courbet, Doré, Walter Crane, and major painters of the 19th century.

June 29, 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

Mother and baby in paintings 1

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Features Harriet Backer’s masterpiece, and paintings by Giorgione, Ford Madox Brown, Jules Breton and his daughter, and others.

May 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Martyrs’ Mountain: Paintings of Montmartre 2

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The bohemian quarter of Paris, painted by van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec (who lived there for 20 years), Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, and others.

January 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Footnote: Feet and footwear in paintings 2

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Feet in social history, from Winslow Homer, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Jules Breton, Bonnard, Schiele, Degas, and others.

August 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Circus: Performers

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Life behind the scenes of a circus was less than idyllic. Owners often cared little for performers, and animals were treated cruelly. Painted insights from Degas, Renoir, and others.

April 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 7 Decline

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A lot changed in painting in the 1890s. Within just a few years, Naturalism went from being all the rage to old hat. These paintings show how.

January 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 5 Growth of the city

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Less often painted than the rural poor, Naturalism did show the growing pains of the 19th century cities. Paintings from Lhermitte, Luce, Bellows, and more.

January 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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