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A History of Rome in Paintings: 6 War with the Tuscans, and defending the bridge

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Rome saved from invasion of Lars Porsena and his Tuscans/Etruscans, by the bravery of one man, Horatius Cocles.

September 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Patrons and painters: Rubens the diplomat

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As one of the last true Renaissance men, his artistic and diplomatic careers depended on his patrons – as much as they depended on him.

March 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Faithful Friends: Dogs in paintings

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Loyal to their master or mistress, often to the point of self-sacrifice. Paintings by Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Courbet and Bonnard.

February 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 8 Armida abducts Rinaldo

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Godfrey’s siege is stalled due to a bewitched wood, then the temperatures rise and streams dry up. The pressure is on him, so they try to find the missing Rinaldo. Superb paintings from Poussin and others.

November 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 3b Publicola

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Much happened during his time as Rome’s great statesman: Lucretia was raped and her suicide inspired revolution. Then came the transition to a republic. Paintings by Botticelli, Rembrandt, Rubens and van Dyck, and more.

June 18, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Umbrellas: Stop the sun

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Borrowed from the Church, parasols became an accessory of the aristocracy, then for all who were fashionable. They went from black to white, then Japanese.

May 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Pigment: The blue from over the sea, Ultramarine

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The most famous of all, with its origins in Afghanistan, the most precious and beautiful pigment. But it has caught out some of the best forgers too.

May 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Pigment: Ground glass (Smalt)

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Take some blue glass, grind it, and turn it into paint: Smalt is one of the strangest of pigments. It extensively used until replaced by Prussian Blue in the early 1700s, and is making a comeback.

March 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 79 – Pomona Seduced and Anaxarete Petrified

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How Vertumnus tried to trick Pomona into loving him, then told her a threatening story. Neither worked: it was being himself that won her in the end.

March 19, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 40 Daedalus and Icarus

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The popular story told concisely by Ovid, and painted brilliantly by van Dyck, Leighton, Rubens, Brueghel, and others.

August 28, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

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