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Velázquez

Hard reality: 5 Mirror play

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Before photography, the only opportunity to see your face, painters took advantage of the Venus Effect to break optical rules and show faces that couldn’t have been seen in the mirror.

May 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of eggs

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Long before they were turned into chocolate, they were coloured, and hunted on Easter Sunday. Paintings by Claude Monet, Diego Velázquez, and others.

April 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend in the Eternal City: Paintings of the Tiber and Villa Borghese

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In Rome, in search of the temple of Aesculapius, and in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, with Corot, Velázquez, Valenciennes, and others.

March 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 34 Picture in a picture, stories

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From the tribute to a dead colleague, and a record of an important exhibition, to the downright enigmatic embedded paintings of Velázquez, Courbet and others.

February 9, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 18 Spinning

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Spinning natural fibres like wool into yarn was “women’s work” and had several connotations, here explored in paintings, and the origin of the word ‘spinster’.

December 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 10 Gaze, looking away

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Ignored bodies, a complex chain from the head of John the Baptist, and Velazquez’s royal portrait which omits the King and Queen,

November 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Thread of Time in paintings 2: Threads

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Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby, William Dyce, Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse, Velázquez and others with allusions to the thread of time.

January 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 17 A short history

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From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.

December 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 6 Comedy, the tale of Demodocus

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Comedy is unusual in paintings, and where it occurs, it’s more usually a visual joke. But there are exceptions in a tale-within-a-tale from Homer.

November 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 5 Real landscapes

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From the Flemish artist Paul Bril, to Claude Lorrain, and then through the French ports of Claude-Joseph Vernet to the oil sketches of Valenciennes.

October 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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