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Veronese

The best of 2022’s paintings and articles 1

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Don Quixote, Netherlandish Proverbs, grain fields in Ukraine, a flock of sheep in a boat, the Golden Horn, pastels and kabkabs.

December 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 13: A short history of clothes and fabrics in paintings

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An overview starting with the sculptural folds of the late 13th century, peaking with Raphael and Rembrandt, and dissolving with Renoir and Sargent in the early 20th century.

July 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 13: What colour is the sky?

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Starting from Egyptian blue in ancient times, pigments preferred by painters for sky blue have changed repeatedly. Here’s a brief history.

July 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Sheer Delight 5: Fooling the brain

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From Veronese’s bravura brushstrokes to the crafted surface textures of lavish and heavy fabrics with Rembrandt.

May 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 3: Raphael and Veronese

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First Raphael showed how meticulous attention to detail brought lifelike appearance to clothing and fabrics, then Veronese showed that freer brushwork was just as effective.

May 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Easter: Resurrection

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The other half of the festival of Easter has been painted far less. Yet without Resurrection, Easter and all Christian belief would be worthless.

April 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A cavalcade of colour: 2 green to white

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Completes this tour of the painter’s palette, with well-known greens, then the essential blacks and whites. Examples from Michelangelo to Vincent van Gogh.

March 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 0 Summary and contents

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Does analysis of literary plots offer anything to the understanding of visual narrative in painting? A journey through some of the best painted stories in quest of the answer.

January 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 11 The moment of change

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Do Booker’s Seven Basic Plots reduce to a series of events leading to a change in fortune (reversal, peripeteia), and establishing the outcome?

December 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 2 Perseus and Theseus

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How well do paintings of the stories of Perseus and Theseus fit Booker’s Seven Basic Plots? As he gives these as examples of Overcoming the Monster, do his stages work?

October 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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