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Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 3 Successful work

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Two major works in his later years: ‘Work’, showing a crowded street in Victorian London, and 12 large murals for Manchester Town Hall.

April 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 2 The hard road to success

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After painting his masterpiece ‘The Last of England’, he returned to landscapes made with great attention to detail, in front of the motif. And they sold.

April 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 1 An uncertain start

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After training in Belgium, he painted a series of narrative works, then a finely detailed landscape of a view over London. Success eluded him.

April 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Florence: 1 History

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Paintings of the city of Florence recreating times past, from Dante’s meeting with Beatrice, to Lorenzo the Magnificent in the late 15th century.

February 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Palm Sunday: Palm trees in paintings 2

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Claude Lorrain’s view of Delos, Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks, several versions of the Flight to Egypt, including one by William Blake, and more.

December 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Persephone (Proserpine)

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How her abduction by Hades to the underworld brought the seasons. Paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Rossetti, and others.

November 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Muses and Models 2

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The daughter of a Jamaican slave, William Morris’s wife, three Greek cousins known as the Three Graces – all muses and models for Pre-Raphaelites.

November 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Muses and Models 1

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Great Pre-Raphaelite women didn’t stand behind their partners, but in front of them, as their muses and models. Masterpieces with two stories to tell.

November 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of reading and books 1: Learning and devotion

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Reading and the book in paintings from 1235 to 1849, a period in which they were mainly associated with religious devotion.

November 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Sisters 2

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Five more forgotten women artists with Pre-Raphaelite style, including the prolific and brilliant Kate Bunce, whose work should be much better-known.

November 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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