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a fine sight it was
The noble houses and regal living of eighteenth century England… …Lord Egremont celebrated special occasions- victories, coronations, royal birthdays, and, of course, his own- with vast public entertainments that amazed even his own time. Here is a description of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Greville, George Macaulay Trevelyan, George Morland paintings, J.E. Neal painter, James Brydges Duke of Chandos, James Gillray, James Leigh Adlestrop, Jane Austen, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Lady Caroline Brydges, Lord Egremont, Lord Egremont Petworth, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Princely Duke of Chandos
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banished and vanished
Augustus the Imperator. When you have a standing army of 300,000 men you can call yourself just about anything and people will agree with you. In 2 B.C. he had been given the title pater patriae, Father of the Nation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus, Augustus banishes Julia, Augustus banishes Ovid, E.M. Forster, Edmund Spenser, Horace, JMW Turner, Johann Heinrich Schonfeld, john dryden, John Milton, Joseph Mallord William Turner, L. Aemilius Paulus, Livy historian, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maecenas and Augustus, Ovid, Ovid Art of Love, Pablo Picasso, Virgil Aenid, Virgil and Horace
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not a recorder of the “right” sentiments
Turner was perhaps the greatest of all British artists, but there was always the question of whether his most adventurous works were evidence of mental decay. Turner was the antithesis of Charles Eastlake, the head of the Royal Academy. Eastlake … Continue reading
shine a light: bright lights
It used to be considered as junk science. Pseudo-science and old folk tales mixed with superstition. But, it turns our Seasonal Affective Disorder is real and almost measurable. A particular problem in the north where winter daylight is problematic. There … Continue reading
are we playing in the same brand?
Watercolor paper is still apparently made much the way it has been since Duke of Berry let the ladies of the palace engage in the visual arts. That is, since Medieval times. Its mulched, pressed and literally hung out to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arches Canson, Arches watercolor paper, Duc de Berry, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, napoleon the description of egypt, turner watercolors, Voltaire, voltaire complete works
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w. blake: the quack doctors of painting
The Royal Academy. The real power of the Royal Academy lay in its early days, and the driving force behind its consolidation was not primarily intellectual or social at all. It related to the machinery of distribution and sale. High … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin West, Grosvenor Gallery, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Richard Wilson Royal Academy, The Grand Tour, the royal academy, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth
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academy of drab
The Royal Academy. The general notion of the artist as wild man was quite out of place in the hey day of the Royal Academy. The notion of art as an enclosed world, obedient to its own laws only, did … Continue reading
Not in my salon
Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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