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The first modern pigment: Prussian blue

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The first modern synthetic pigment, from 1704. Adopted by Canaletto, Hogarth and many others since, and still offered in many paint ranges.

August 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

From the Commedia dell’Arte to Punch and Judy 1

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Pierrot, Harlequin and other characters from the early professional theatre seen in paintings by Watteau, Goya and others.

May 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 191 Curtains of concealment and revelation

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Curtains in Raphael’s remarkable trompe l’oeil, concealing a nude, opened by the peeping tom, revealing a lost lover, and as separator between players and spectators.

February 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Tuileries Gardens: 1 To Monet

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Paintings by Watteau, Manet, Adolph Menzel, Claude Monet and others of these popular gardens in the centre of Paris.

January 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 169 Wedding, personal

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Wedding paintings by Rubens, Watteau, Delacroix, Frith, and Naturalists from the time that photography was creating a new market.

October 23, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 143 Apes and monkeys, singerie

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Just monkeying about in the Dutch Golden Age, with cats in a barbershop, as a sculptor, and the amazing paintings of Gabriel von Max.

July 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 113 Constellations B

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Ariadne’s Corona Borealis, a difficult reading from Tintoretto, celestial spheres, constellations of summer, and signs of the zodiac.

February 14, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 59 Aegis

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An attribute of the goddess Athena (Minerva), it consists of the image of the face of Medusa on a shield or breastplate.

June 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 58 Sickles

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A symbol of the harvest with Ceres, a weapon for Bacchantes, the sign of the Divine Reaper Saturn, used by Iris to cut locks of hair, and for cutting the cereal crop.

May 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 2 Paris and his Judgement

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Paris, Prince of Troy, is the perfect pawn in Zeus’s plan for war. He develops a taste for beautiful women, then accepts Aphrodite’s bribe in the beauty contest of the three goddesses.

March 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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