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Heroic Proportions: Michelangelo’s ‘David’
Heroic Proportions: Michelangelo’s ‘David’
The return to colossal sculpture presented a paradigm of masculine beauty…
Remy Dean
Jul 30
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What Does this Brueghel Painting Really Mean?
What Does this Brueghel Painting Really Mean?
A new interpretation of the famous painting of ‘The Fight Between Carnival and Lent’
Samuel Belleville-Douelle
Jul 23
A Realist in an Age of Imagination: Charles Ethan Porter
A Realist in an Age of Imagination: Charles Ethan Porter
The talented nineteenth-century painter from Connecticut who took a big gamble to perfect his craft
Kerry Dooley Young
Jul 17
El Anatsui: All That Glisters…
El Anatsui: All That Glisters…
Considering the history and heritage that exalts ephemera into distinctive contemporary art out of Africa
Kim Vertue
Jul 11
Octobriana: Myths from the Underground
Octobriana: Myths from the Underground
Covert artist cells, political dadaism, art theft, and a dissident Communist icon.
Ed Holland
Jul 3
Velvet Dark and Blossom Bright: the Art of Flower Brueghel
Velvet Dark and Blossom Bright: the Art of Flower Brueghel
Flowers from different places and seasons bloom together in meticulous botanical studies by Jan Brueghel the Elder
Kim Vertue
Jun 26
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The Joys of Spring: Botticelli’s Primavera
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An appropriate time to consider the Renaissance painting that’s a perennial favourite of art lovers…
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Piet Mondrian’s Tree Paintings
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Exploring the essential balance and beauty of nature in search of a simple truth in the human experience…
Remy Dean
Nov 24, 2019
Dürer and Jerome: Being Human
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Considering Albrecht Dürer’s Engraving of Saint Jerome in His Study and What it Meant in the Northern Renaissance
Kim Vertue
Aug 6, 2023
A la Mode for the European Road
A la Mode for the European Road
The classic Citroën 2CV fused French elegance with functional engineering, providing practical transport on the road to post-war recovery…
Remy Dean
Nov 20, 2022
A School (of Athens) Reunion
A School (of Athens) Reunion
Raphael painted the artists and thinkers of the Renaissance as they saw themselves — successors to the great classical Greek philosophers…
Remy Dean
Feb 7, 2022
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