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Circus: Spectacle

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From the eighteenth century, organised circuses toured cities, and some were established to operate year-round. Here are paintings to make you gasp with wonder.

April 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 9 The story of Gretchen by Ary Scheffer & James Tissot

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Two superb series of paintings of scenes from Goethe’s Faust Part One, by Ary Scheffer and James Tissot.

March 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 5 Gretchen’s fall

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Gretchen and Faust become lovers, but her mother dies as a result of Faust’s sleeping potion, and he kills her brother in a sword-fight.

February 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 4 The seduction of Gretchen

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Faust lusts after the young Gretchen. Mephistopheles sets up a meeting, and the girl is soon in love with Faust, ready to do anything for him. And so she does.

January 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 3 Auerbach’s Tavern and lust

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Drinking in one of the oldest bars in Leipzig gets the pair into trouble, so they move on to get a witch to rejuvenate Faust. He then lusts after Gretchen.

January 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 0 Introduction to a new series

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Viewed as classic and fit for narrative painting, Faust is about good and evil, a powerful story which has inspired powerful paintings.

December 29, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Collins and Copping: Words, paintings, and Charles Dickens

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Two painters: one married Charles Dickens’ daughter and stopped painting, the other became a prolific illustrator, including books by Dickens’ grand-daughter. The Victorian Web at work.

December 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Franco-Prussian War: Aftermath

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After the huge death toll of the war, including 2 major painters, a week in Paris in May resulted in a further 7,000 deaths, and the destruction of public buildings. Hardly a painter in France wasn’t affected.

July 29, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Towards a timeline

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An illustrated timeline and overview of how the human visual environment, and perception of it, has changed from ancient times to virtual reality.

January 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Every picture tells two stories

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We’re easily convinced of the reality of 2D images – as when early audiences panicked as the Lumières’ train ran at them in a movie. How has our exposure to pictures changed, though?

December 20, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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