Tag: painting
All the articles with the tag "painting".
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Why the Impressionists Couldn't Stop Painting Flowers
Published:• 14 min readImpressionism flower paintings span Monet's water lilies, Manet's peonies, Renoir's bouquets, and Fantin-Latour's roses. Here's a guide to the eight that matter.
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The Eight Friends Who Made Impressionism: A Painters' Field Guide
Published:• 17 min readThe Impressionism painters were a small group of around fifteen friends in Paris in the 1870s. Here are the eight that mattered most, and what each one actually did.
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The Painting That Named a Movement: Monet's Impression, Sunrise
Published:• 15 min readImpressionism sunrise was painted by Claude Monet in Le Havre in 1872 and gave the entire movement its name. Here's the painting and the joke that named it.
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Raphael's Famous Work and the Tomb in the Pantheon: Why a Painter Got Buried with Gods
Published:• 11 min readRaphael's most famous work earned him a burial slot in the Pantheon in 1520 -- a reading of the paintings that made him, and the epitaph that closes them.
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Where to See Caravaggio in Rome: A Walking Guide to Every Painting
Published:• 20 min readA walking guide to every surviving Caravaggio painting in the city of Rome -- seven churches and museums, and the fastest route between them.
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Raphael Self Portrait School of Athens: The Painter Who Hid in the Corner
Published:• 13 min readThe Raphael self portrait School of Athens tucks the painter beside Ptolemy at age twenty seven, staring straight out and claiming a seat among the ancients.
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School of Athens Characters Labeled: Who's Who in Raphael's Fresco
Published:• 16 min readThe School of Athens characters labeled one by one: Leonardo as Plato, Michelangelo as Heraclitus, Bramante as Euclid, the figure some call Hypatia, and Raphael hiding in the corner.
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The Sistine Chapel Restoration Controversy: Did the Vatican Ruin Michelangelo?
Published:• 16 min readThe Sistine Chapel restoration controversy of 1980 to 1994 turned the ceiling from brown to neon, and one professor spent his life calling it a crime.
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The Creation of Adam Hidden Meaning: Why There's a Brain in God's Cloak
Published:• 16 min readThe Creation of Adam hidden meaning that a doctor noticed in 1990, and why once you see the brain in God's cloak, you cannot unsee it.
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The Van Gogh Self Portrait Orsay Holds Was Painted From Inside an Asylum
Published:• 12 min readThe Van Gogh self portrait Orsay visitors see was painted September 1889 inside the Saint-Remy asylum, three months before he shot himself.