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When history is fiction: painted inventions of Pierre Guérin

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The fictional Marcus Sextus, Napoleon pardoning the rebels of Cairo, and Narcissus where he shouldn’t be: disinformation in history painting.

January 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

The Likeness of Truth 2

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Three paintings within 5 years, usually claimed to be responses to the Dreyfus Affair. But one was much more about modern art and photography.

June 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Likeness of Truth 1

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From Apelles, in around 330 BCE, the personification of Truth has had particular importance to painters, in the faithfulness and accuracy of their work. Here she is.

June 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

John Singer Sargent’s ‘Gassed’: more allusion than fact?

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There’s a lot more to this painting than first meets the eye: a bit of Brueghel, some Leighton, and even some Signorelli.

November 27, 2016 General, Life, Painting

Truth: the worst casualty of political campaigns

The UK’s referendum has been transformed by its campaigns into a propagandum in which truth has been lost. What is the solution?

June 23, 2016 General, Language, Life, Technology

Is that so? How to check the veracity of ‘facts’

The Internet is replete with information and opinions, many of them plain wrong. This is most true of […]

February 7, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology
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