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Reading visual art: 43 What’s wrong in that painting? 1

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A collection of paintings with strange incongruities that can make them impossible to read, from Masaccio to Gérôme.

March 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 1 Zeus’s plan and a wedding feast

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Zeus comes up with a plan to reduce the number of mortals, and completes one of the first two steps, marrying Thetis to a mortal. And what a wedding feast, thanks to Eris.

February 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Painting the fruitfulness of Autumn/Fall 2

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From Nabi women climbing stepladders to gathering plums in baskets, with a visit to the garden of the Hesperides, and ending in the garden of Eden.

September 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Animals Went in Two by Two in paintings

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Raphael and Tintoretto creations, Noah’s thanksgiving, Bosch, and two wonderful paintings of Orpheus and the Animals.

February 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Thetis, Achilles’ mother

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Known from her wedding, which led to the Trojan War, and for being the mother of the Greek warrior Achilles, she is well-known in paintings.

March 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Here be Dragons in paintings

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A celebration of painted dragons in European art, including Moreau, William Blake, Raphael, Tintoretto and others.

August 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: the Hesperides

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Three to seven sisters who guard Hera’s golden apples in a land ‘to the west’, painted by Burne-Jones, Leighton, Turner, Sargent, and more.

May 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Wedding Paintings 1: Classics

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The first caused war between centaurs and humans, in the second many were turned into stone, and the third caused the Trojan War

April 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Soul in Flight: paintings of butterflies to 1860

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From Pisanello and Dosso Dossi to William Holman Hunt and Richard Dadd: paintings showing butterflies.

August 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Two Scenes in One Painting: multiplex narrative from 1500 to 1600

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Great paintings by Botticelli, Bosch, Titian, Tintoretto, the Carraccis, and others, showing multiplex narrative.

August 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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