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Reading visual art: 32 Up to 23 scenes in one image

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Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton.

February 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 31 Two or more scenes in one image

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Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image

February 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 28 Peacock and dove

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Two birds associated with different beliefs: Hera or Juno’s peacocks, and the white dove as a physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

January 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 5 Evil serpents

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Snakes and serpents in myth, legend and religion are thoroughly sinister and bad, with one curious exception. A journey across centuries of images.

October 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 2 Wings of Angels

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A visual history tracing wings back to their origins in messengers of the gods and messenger-gods of the dawn of civilisation, 4 millennia ago.

October 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 13: What colour is the sky?

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Starting from Egyptian blue in ancient times, pigments preferred by painters for sky blue have changed repeatedly. Here’s a brief history.

July 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

In memoriam Piero di Cosimo, who died 500 years ago 3

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He continued to paint distinctive stories from classical mythology, including fine accounts of the fight between Lapiths and Centaurs, and Perseus and Andromeda.

April 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Piero di Cosimo, who died 500 years ago 2

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Unusual themes include a forest fire, the discovery of honey by Bacchus, early landscapes and hunting scenes.

April 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Piero di Cosimo, who died 500 years ago, 1

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Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of this innovative Florentine painter, a contemporary of Botticelli.

March 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of drawn carts 1

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From two pairs of unicorns drawing the Duke and Duchess of Urbino to a horse-drawn fire engine racing through the countryside, how animals have drawn people everywhere.

January 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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