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The Real Country: Trades

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Self-help thatching and maintaining your scythe, blacksmiths hard at work in their forges, a tilt-hammer in another forge, and a tinker fixing pots.

November 21, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The Real Country: 6 The mill

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Turning harvested and threshed grain into food required it to be crushed into flour in mills, powered either by wind or water.

September 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Equestrian portraits in honour of George Stubbs

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Equestrian paintings of those who followed George Stubbs: Théodore Géricault, James Ward, Horace Vernet, Eugène Delacroix, and Edgar Degas.

August 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating 100 years since the death of Henrietta Ward, Victorian history painter

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Painter to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she was a friend of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. But the Royal Academy refused her, because she was a woman.

July 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 128 Donkey

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The humble beast of burden, carrying drunken kings, Mary and the infant Jesus, the Good Samaritan, Sancho Panza, and young lambs.

April 16, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 79 Pigs and swineherds

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Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, Gadarene swine, Sant Anthony, and in portraits: everything to see about pigs and their swineherds.

October 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 77 Dogs B, Companions

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Loyal unto death, dogs as companions to knights, bored Venetian ladies, successful artists, royalty, nude women, and Marthe Bonnard.

October 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of pigs 1

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Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Morland, James Ward, Gustave Courbet, and others, showing plenty of pigs.

February 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 33 Picture in a picture, landscapes

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Cameo views of landscapes were common practice during the Renaissance, and also had value in locating the primary view.

February 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Gorgeous Landscapes 1: Wolf to Cole

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Declared sublime, and named after the throat, they’re painted from the mid-18th century. Works by Wolf, Turner, Ward, German Romantics and more.

June 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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