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Veronese

A History of Rome in Paintings: 5 The last king’s downfall

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Lucretia’s rape and suicide, painted by Veronese, Artemisia Gentileschi, Rembrandt, and Kneller, and a wonderful David.

September 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Here be Orcs and Sea Monsters in paintings

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Scenes from Perseus and Andromeda, and Orlando Furioso, by Veronese, Moreau, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

August 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Is this a racist image, or is there a more complex account?

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Isn’t that a horrific example of racism: a white man standing on the head of a Black man? Not when you read the image carefully.

July 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Wedding Paintings 2: Other stories

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The Marriage Feast at Cana, and works by Botticelli, von Carolsfeld, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti featuring wedding feasts.

April 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Pro-Raphaelite…

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Raphael’s legacy, including assimilation of styles, figures so lifelike they’re ‘almost breathing’, and a large workshop.

April 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Foundling: Paintings of Moses in the bulrushes

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Even the boldest of artists has avoided painting abandoned babies, except in the Biblical story of Moses. Veronese, Poussin, Sirani, Moreau and more.

December 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Crown Jewels: Precious stones in paintings 1

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If you thought glassware was tough, try painting gems and jewellery. Here are a few paintings where this has worked, including two of Rembrandt’s.

September 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Misfit: Henri Fantin-Latour 6 Group portraits

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Six distinctive group portraits are now the works for which he is best known. But aren’t they strange, set in comparison with contemporary paintings?

July 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Misfit: Henri Fantin-Latour 1 First flowers

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Not an Impressionist by any means, he was a close friend of Whistler and Manet, who painted some of the major group portraits of the late 1800s.

June 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 12 Stretched canvas

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First popularised for use with glue tempera, ‘canvas’ quickly developed into the first choice for oils. In Venice, canvases as large as tennis courts were used by Veronese and Tintoretto.

June 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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