Journal of ART in SOCIETY
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    • Millet and the Angelus
    • The Two Women in White
    • Bruegel’s White Christmas: The Census at Bethlehem
    • Elsheimer’s Flight into Egypt: how it changed the boundaries between art, religion and science
    • The rescue of the fabulous lost library of Deir al-Surian
    • Feathers, fashion and animal rights
    • Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel
    • On the Trail of the Last Supper
    • Floating pleasure worlds of Paris and Edo
    • The emergence of the winter landscape
    • Toulouse-Lautrec, the bicycle and the women's movement
    • From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Pt 1: Why did suffragettes attack artworks?
    • From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Pt 2: the Strange Allure of Fascism
    • The Futurists declare war on pasta
    • The art of giraffe diplomacy
    • Science becomes Art
  • Catastrophes and scandals
    • The Controversies of Constantin Brancusi: Princess X and the boundaries of art
    • Bernardo Bellotto and the reconstruction of Warsaw
    • Surviving the Black Death
    • Julie Manet, Renoir and the Dreyfus Affair
    • Art and Survival in Patagonia
    • The Isenheim Altarpiece Pt 1: Pestilence and the Concert of Angels
    • The Isenheim Altarpiece Pt 2: Nationalism, Nazism and Degeneracy
    • The shocking birth and amazing career of Guernica
  • Forgotten Women Artists
    • Forgotten Women Artists: introduction
    • Forgotten Women Artists: #1 Arcangela Paladini: The Rapid Rise and Fall of a Prodigy
    • Forgotten Women Artists: #2 Jane Loudon
    • Forgotten Women Artists: #3 Marie-Gabrielle Capet: Stepping out from the Shadows
    • Forgotten Women Artists #4: Michaelina Wautier: entering the limelight after 300 years
  • Lives and livelihoods
    • The Sphinx of Delft: Jan Vermeer’s demise and rediscovery
    • Rose-Marie Ormond: Sargent’s muse and “the most charming girl that ever lived”
    • The extraordinary career of Granville Redmond, deaf artist and silent movie actor
    • Dr Jekyll, Frankenstein and Shelley’s Heart
    • The Adventures of Nadar: photography, ballooning, invention & the Impressionists
    • Colonial artist, thief, forger and mutineer: Thomas Barrett's amazing career
    • Watchmen, goldfinders and the plague bearers of the night
    • Sarka of the South Seas
    • The discovery of an early graphic novel
    • Should artists get royalties?
    • Strange encounters: the collector, the artist and the philosopher
  • Techniques and technology
    • Art as a barometer of climate changes
    • The life and death of Mummy Brown
    • Egyptian blue: the colour of technology
    • Prussian blue and its partner in crime
    • Why wasn't photography invented earlier?
    • Comets in Art
    • Art in a Speeded Up World >
      • Overview
      • Pt 1: Changing concepts of time
      • Pt 2: The 'new' time in literature
      • Pt 3: The 'new' time in painting
    • Early influences of photography >
      • Pt 1: Initial impacts
      • Pt 2: Photography as a working aid
      • Pt 3: Photographic effects
      • Pt 4: New approaches to reality
  • Authenticity and meaning
    • Understanding Petrus Christus’ A Goldsmith in his Shop
    • Lost in Translation: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel
    • Perception and Blindness in the 16th Century
    • "All life is here": Bruegel's 'Way to Calvary'
    • Carpaccio’s double enigma: Hunting on the Lagoon and the Two Venetian Ladies
    • Bruegel's Icarus and the perils of flight
    • Michelangelo's disputed Entombment
    • Titian, Prudence and the three-headed beast
    • The origins of an Australian art icon
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Here are articles that have recently been included in the Journal:
Bruegel’s White Christmas: The Census at Bethlehem: the masterpiece that was probably the first-ever painting of a White Christmas, and one of the first times that a painter ever depicted this pivotal Biblical episode
Understanding Petrus Christus’ A Goldsmith in his Shop: we look at the various interpretations of what this 15th century masterpiece actually depicts
Millet and the Angelus: the strange story of how this painting of potato farmers sold for a fortune, inspired patriotic fervour, a madman’s attack, an obsession by van Gogh, a possible dead baby & the introduction of a revolutionary new way of rewarding artists [August 2020]
The Sphinx of Delft: the astonishing twists and turns in the reputation of the celebrated 17th century Dutch artist Jan Vermeer [April 2020]
​The Two Women in White:  we examine two extraordinary creations, both involving mysterious women in white, that enthralled and shocked 1860s Britain ~ Wilkie Collins’ bestselling novel and Whistler’s outrageous portrait [January 2020]
Lost in Translation: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel: we examine the origins of this iconic work of art, and explore what the artist was trying to say  [October 2019]
Rose-Marie Ormond: John Singer Sargent’s muse and “the most charming girl that ever lived” [June 2019]
Forgotten Women Artists #4: Michaelina Wautier: in the fourth in our series on forgotten women artists, we analyse how the reputation of Michaelina Wautier has been resuscitated after a break of more than three centuries [April 2019]
The extraordinary career of Granville Redmond ~ deaf artist, silent movie actor and mentor to Charlie Chaplin [January 2019]
Perception and Blindness in the 16th Century: Bruegel’s The Blind Leading the Blind: our analysis of this painting by Bruegel, a work that has been described as one of the finest pictures ever painted [October 2018]
The rescue of the fabulous lost library of Deir al-Surian. The momentous rescue of  one of the greatest libraries in Christendom, from the desolate wastes of the Egyptian Desert (June 2018)
Forgotten Women Artists #3: Marie-Gabrielle Capet: In the third in our series on forgotten women artists, we look at the life and works of the talented but obscure 18C French painter Marie-Gabrielle Capet (Mar 2018)
Forgotten Women Artists #2: Jane Loudon: in the second of our series on forgotten women artists, we examine the life and works of the remarkable 19C artist, futurist, horticulturist and author Jane Loudon (Nov 2017)
Forgotten Women Artists: #1 Arcangela Paladini: as the first in an upcoming series, we look at the life and works of the 17th century Italian prodigy Arcangela Paladini (Sept 2017)

“All life is here”: Bruegel’s Way to Calvary: a detailed exploration of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s famously complex and intriguing Way to Calvary (June 2017)
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