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Hospitality to strangers, a theme in narrative painting 2

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Classical expectations are reinforced in the Bible, but clearly fade by New Testament times, when Jesus uses attitudes towards Samaritans in his teaching. By the 19th century, hospitality has been lost.

September 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the end of slavery

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Some artists not only spoke out against slavery and racism, but painted about it. Here’s a small selection of works by Turner, Eakins, Tanner, Biard and Morland.

July 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 3

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Why would an artist compose a painting to hide the face? Examples by Degas, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent and others. It’s our faces that make us human.

June 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Finale: The Exposition Universelle of 1900, 1

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Looking back at the art of the nineteenth century, there was a large section devoted to Impressionism, but acclaimed Symbolist and other paintings too.

June 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the flight to Egypt

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Fra Bartolomeo, Tintoretto, Blake, Merson, Tanner, and a very special nocturne by Adam Elsheimer show this popular story.

December 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1919: War and Work

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John Singer Sargent’s ‘Gassed’ was probably the most important painting of the year, but wasn’t the only memorial to the millions who died.

December 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 16 Varnish

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Until 1880, varnishing oil paintings was standard practice, but three completely different types of varnish were used. A journey through names like sandarac and colophony.

July 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Medium Well Done: Wood panels

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From the funerary portraits of Fayum, through the work of Jan van Eyck, to Leonardo, Rubens and Botticelli, many of the greatest paintings are on wood panels.

May 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Corydon: 1 Stories of shepherds

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Shepherds and shepherdesses painted in stories, from classical myth, through the Bible and Christ’s nativity, to epic poetry, including Milton’s Paradise Lost.

April 27, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Spinning in paintings: 1 History

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Paintings showing women spinning from around 1000 CE to the early 20th century, by Eakins, Tanner, Courbet, van Gogh, Breton, and others,

January 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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