An introduction to some of the history and panegyric behind Rubens’ Marie de’ Medici Cycle, in the Louvre.
Velázquez
When you’re a great narrative painter and a diplomat, one painting might be all that is needed to secure a peace treaty.
Trying to elicit a specific taste seem over-ambitious, but why can’t great paintings at least make us feel peckish?
A triple bill of myths, ingeniously interwoven into a story with four different metamorphoses – and some superb paintings.
Introduction to a series explaining the history of oil paint, effects on techniques, hence on paintings themselves.
There have been four different readings of this well-known painting. Does any of them work, or should we look to a different account?
It is hard to be sure when oil painting outdoors first started, but the oldest such paintings date from before 1700.
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