Leander’s Tower on the Bosporus
Oil on canvas, 1876, by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 – 1880) There is a sense of undeserved nostalgia which resonates from this dreamy...
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Aug 2, 20208 min read
Caravaggio's David and Goliath
David and Goliath Oil on canvas, 1599, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 – 1610) David with the Head of Goliath Oil on wood,...
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Jul 26, 20207 min read
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife
Oil on canvas, 1640, by Paolo Finoglia (1590 – 1645) or 1623, by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1656) That there is some debate over the...
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Jun 28, 20205 min read
Cranes
Pair of two-panel folding screens; ink, colour, and gold on paper, 1825, by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796 - 1858) Left panel Right panel These two...
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Jun 22, 20205 min read
Saint Sebastian by Régnier
Saint Sebastian Oil on canvas, 1620, by Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667) Saint Sebastian Oil on canvas, 1620, by Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667)...
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Jun 14, 20206 min read
Requiescat
Oil on canvas, 1888, by Briton Rivière (1840 – 1920) This heart-wrenching painting by the British painter, Briton Rivière could arguably...
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Jun 7, 20206 min read
Piazza San Marco, Venice
Oil on canvas, 1734, by Canaletto (1697 – 1768) Global pandemics permitting, you happen to be in Italy, seeing the sights, indulging in...
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May 29, 20206 min read
Three Paintings by Degas
Singer with a Glove Pastel on canvas, 1878 by Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) The Rehearsal Oil on canvas, 1878 Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917)...
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May 25, 20205 min read
Three Pairs of Shoes
Oil on canvas, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Would the mighty Roman empire have risen if it were not for the fact that Roman...
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May 17, 20205 min read
A Sea-Spell
Oil on canvas, 1877, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882) We learn from Homer’s The Odyssey how the mythical Sirens posed yet another...
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May 10, 20204 min read
Miss Alice Kurtz
Oil on canvas, 1903, by Thomas Eakins (1844 – 1916) Yet another artist misunderstood, under-appreciated and falling foul of the...
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May 6, 20205 min read
Images (V0l. 5) - Cecil Beaton Images
The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex...
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May 3, 20205 min read
The Abduction of Psyche
Oil on canvas, 1895, by William-Adoplhe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Poor old Psyche has been put through the ringer by the time her depiction...
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Apr 26, 20204 min read
The Punishment of Cain
Oil on canvas, 1836, by Théodore Chassériau, (1819 – 1856) There are some fundamental “problems” with the parable of Cain and Abel which...
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Apr 14, 20205 min read
Images (Vol. 3) - Steichen Images
In photography’s early decades, photographs were expected to be idealized images. This is still the aim of most amateur photographers,...
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Apr 7, 20202 min read
Images (Vol. 2) - Appropriated Images
The idea of bricolage - of what I would call "purposed appropriation" - can be summarised as follows: "All systems fall on a continuum...
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Apr 1, 20202 min read
Images (Vol. 1) - Black Images
He - Antoine-Henri Becquerel - noted that when uranium salts were left on a photographic plate sealed in paper, an energy from the salts...
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Mar 6, 20208 min read
Grisly Reflections
Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits, Museum of Fine Art, Boston (March - May 2020) This week has presented one of contrasting perspectives...
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Mar 1, 20206 min read
Venus Mourning the Death of Adonis
Venus Mourning the Death of Adonis Oil on panel, 1646, by Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598 – 1657) Reclining Male Nude Oiled charcoal and...
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Feb 24, 20205 min read
Saint Jerome at the Fogg Museum
Saint Jerome Oil on canvas, 1640, by Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652) Saint Jerome in the Desert with Saints John the Baptist and Ansanus...
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