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Folk Tales in Paintings: Robin Hood and other merry men

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Robin Hood, who robbed the bad to help the poor, and his colleagues William Tell, Oleksa Dovbush and Holger Danske.

May 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1922: Narrative

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A glimpse inside Botticelli’s studio, an artist who foresaw his own death, an unusual Birth of Venus, the Ship Fools, and more painted stories from 1922.

December 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

King Arthur’s women: 2 Queen Guinevere

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She proves unfaithful to King Arthur, in her public affair with Sir Lancelot. But he may not have exactly been loyal to her either.

May 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 4 Egg Tempera

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In the Renaissance, while oil painting was still catching on, many of the greatest masterpieces were painted in egg tempera. How, and to what effect?

April 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Naturalist Andersens: LA Ring 1895-1906

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A decade in which Ring’s life and work were transformed by marriage to his muse, Sigrid. Many of his best paintings are here.

November 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Legends of England in Paint: Robin Hood

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The first of two looking at the telling of English legends in paintings: Robin Hood and his ‘Merry Men’, popular for the last 500 years.

September 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting
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