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Medium Well Done: 14 Copper and other sheets

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Popular with painters during the early 1600s, copper sheets were used by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Adam Elsheimer, David Teniers the younger, William Blake, and Joseph Stella, among others.

June 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Jerusalem Delivered: 14 Heroes and Heroines

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Tasso’s narrative is as complex and interwoven as these six leading characters, from the pious Godfrey to the scheming sorceress Armida.

December 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 13 Summary and highlights

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Twenty cantos summarised with the very best of their paintings by Delacroix, Teniers the Younger, Domenico Tintoretto, Poussin, Tiepolo, and others.

December 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 12 Rinaldo saves Armida, and Jerusalem is delivered

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The last challenge to the delivery of Jerusalem is the attack of the massed army of the Egyptians. It brings Armida’s reconciliation with Rinaldo, and more fine paintings.

December 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 10 Rinaldo rescued

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Rinaldo recovers his senses, and feels ashamed. He rushes off to rejoin the crusaders, but Armida pleads with him to stay. When he refuses, she seeks vengeance.

November 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 9 In Armida’s Garden

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The rescue of Rinaldo gets under way. Meanwhile he is making love with Armida in the perpetual spring of her garden. Superb paintings from Poussin, Tiepolo, Kauffman, Stillman, and others.

November 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 5 Clorinda fights Tancred, and Armida meets Godfrey

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In the first skirmish outside Jerusalem, Tancred meets the beautiful Clorinda and almost kills her before declaring his love. Armida tries to beguile Godfrey with a tale of woe.

October 19, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 1 Introduction to a new series

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For over 300 years, the most popular literary source for narrative paintings. This new series will cover the background and tell its story in great paintings.

October 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Monkeying Around: Painting apes 1

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For the last 3,500, monkeys have often appeared in European paintings. Here’s a brief survey, with examples from Botticelli, Brueghels, Clara Peeters, Watteau, and others.

July 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Faites vos jeux: gambling on canvas 1, to 1850

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Tracing the social history of gambling in paintings by Bosch, Caravaggio, de La Tour, Salvator Rosa, Murillo, Hogarth, and others.

May 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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