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Delightfully Deadly: Sirens in paintings

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Bad girls whose beautiful voices lured sailors to their deaths, so that the women could eat them. Paintings by Etty, Moreau, Waterhouse, Rae, Nash and others.

January 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Desert, skulls and steelworks: Paintings of Eugen Bracht 1

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A pupil of Hans Gude, he stopped painting for over 10 years. When he resumed, he painted unusual landscapes, peaking in a Symbolist masterpiece of the apocalypse.

January 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Floral Spring 2

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References to Botticelli’s Primavera and Poussin by Tiepolo, and in the late 19th century: Flora and the Spring.

April 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Autumn 1: 1573-1895

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From Arcimboldo’s vegetable portrait to the height of Impressionism with Monet and Pissarro, some of the finest paintings of the season.

October 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 59 – Troy and the birth of Achilles

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The trickery involved in building the first city of Troy results in its destruction. How Achille’s parents marry, and what happens at their wedding.

November 20, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Visions of Asgard: Paintings of Norse Mythology – major gods

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Including Thor, Odin, Valkyries, Freya, Loki, and Baldr, with a selection of fine paintings rather than book illustrations.

October 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Landscapes and myths of Hans Thoma, 1886-1917

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He finally achieved success with a one-man show in Munich, and for 20 years was rated one of the top German artists.

October 5, 2017 General, Painting

Landscapes and myths of Hans Thoma, 1862-83

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A prolific and individualistic German painter of landscapes, mythology, and genre scenes, now little-known outside Germany. Part 1 of 2.

October 4, 2017 General, Painting
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