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Reading visual art: 125 Frogs in other stories

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The fairy tale of the Frog Prince, the fable of The Frogs who Demand a King, frogs at the Fall of Man, and dangling from a kite tail above Strasbourg.

March 27, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 79 Pigs and swineherds

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Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, Gadarene swine, Sant Anthony, and in portraits: everything to see about pigs and their swineherds.

October 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Blazing leaves: paintings of autumn 1

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The changing colours of trees and their leaves, celebrated in paintings from Paulus Potter in 1652 to Paul Signac in 1903.

October 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 67 Unicorn

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In earlier paintings, unicorns are usually intended to be real animals. They also have symbolic associations with chastity which lasted longer.

August 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Legends of Orpheus in paint: 1 To the underworld

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The greatest bard, musician and poet in classical Greek myth. Paintings from Paulus Potter, Poussin, Jan Brueghel the Elder and others.

July 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of pigs 1

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Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Morland, James Ward, Gustave Courbet, and others, showing plenty of pigs.

February 25, 2023 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

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

Animalière Extraordinaire: the bicentenary of Rosa Bonheur 1

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After studying the anatomy of animals, she was successful at the Salon, and met Queen Victoria. One of the most famous women artists of the 19th century.

March 9, 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

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