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    • Gabriel Metsu and the gentle art of letter writing
    • Exploring Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street, Rainy Day
    • A very rich book for the very rich
    • Millet and the Angelus
    • The Two Women in White
    • Elsheimer’s Flight into Egypt: how it changed the boundaries between art, religion and science
    • Feathers, fashion and animal rights
    • On the Trail of the Last Supper
    • Floating pleasure worlds of Paris and Edo
    • 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
    • Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat
    • Millais, Charles Dickens and the Holy Family
    • How one man saved the greatest picture in the world: Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection
    • Vermeer’s concert, the Gardner collection, and the art heist of the century
    • The Controversies of Constantin Brancusi: Princess X and the boundaries of art
    • 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
    • Forgotten Women Artists #5 Thérèse Schwartze and the business of painting
    • Forgotten Women Artists: Christina Robertson: A Scottish artist in Russia
  • Lost and found art
    • Emerging from Obscurity: Georges de La Tour's Musicians' Quarrrel
    • Murder, Caravaggio and The Taking of Christ
    • The rescue of the fabulous lost library of Deir al-Surian
    • Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel
    • The Sphinx of Delft: Jan Vermeer’s demise and rediscovery
    • Carpaccio’s double enigma: Hunting on the Lagoon and the Two Venetian Ladies
    • Bernardo Bellotto and the reconstruction of Warsaw
    • The discovery of an early graphic novel
    • Michelangelo's disputed Entombment
  • All about Bruegel
    • Seeing the light: Bruegel's Conversion of Saul
    • Bruegel’s White Christmas: The Census at Bethlehem
    • The emergence of the winter landscape
    • Bruegel and the Two Faces of Summer
    • Bruegel's Peasant Wedding Feast
    • Lost in Translation: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel
    • Perception and Blindness in the 16th Century
    • "All life is here": Bruegel's 'Way to Calvary'
    • Bruegel's Icarus and the perils of flight
  • Lives and livelihoods
    • The extraordinary career of Granville Redmond, deaf artist and silent movie actor
    • Rose-Marie Ormond: Sargent’s muse and “the most charming girl that ever lived”
    • 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
    • Should artists get royalties?
    • Strange encounters: the collector, the artist and the philosopher
  • Techniques and technology
    • The Art of Shadows
    • 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 >
      • Art in a Speeded up World: overview
      • Changing concepts of time
      • The 'new' time in literature
      • 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
    • The dramatic life of a controversial masterpiece: Leonardo’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci
    • Deception and Misdirection: Hieronymus Bosch’s The Conjuror
    • Reflections on a Masterpiece: Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
    • An exploration of vision, reality and illusion
    • Carpaccio's Miracle on the Rialto
    • Masters of All they Survey -- Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews
    • Understanding Petrus Christus’ A Goldsmith in his Shop
    • Titian, Prudence and the three-headed beast
    • The origins of an Australian art icon
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    • Art book and film reviews >
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    • ARTICLES
    • Cultural trends and changes >
      • Gabriel Metsu and the gentle art of letter writing
      • Exploring Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street, Rainy Day
      • A very rich book for the very rich
      • Millet and the Angelus
      • The Two Women in White
      • Elsheimer’s Flight into Egypt: how it changed the boundaries between art, religion and science
      • Feathers, fashion and animal rights
      • On the Trail of the Last Supper
      • Floating pleasure worlds of Paris and Edo
      • 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 >
      • Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat
      • Millais, Charles Dickens and the Holy Family
      • How one man saved the greatest picture in the world: Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection
      • Vermeer’s concert, the Gardner collection, and the art heist of the century
      • The Controversies of Constantin Brancusi: Princess X and the boundaries of art
      • 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
      • Forgotten Women Artists #5 Thérèse Schwartze and the business of painting
      • Forgotten Women Artists: Christina Robertson: A Scottish artist in Russia
    • Lost and found art >
      • Emerging from Obscurity: Georges de La Tour's Musicians' Quarrrel
      • Murder, Caravaggio and The Taking of Christ
      • The rescue of the fabulous lost library of Deir al-Surian
      • Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel
      • The Sphinx of Delft: Jan Vermeer’s demise and rediscovery
      • Carpaccio’s double enigma: Hunting on the Lagoon and the Two Venetian Ladies
      • Bernardo Bellotto and the reconstruction of Warsaw
      • The discovery of an early graphic novel
      • Michelangelo's disputed Entombment
    • All about Bruegel >
      • Seeing the light: Bruegel's Conversion of Saul
      • Bruegel’s White Christmas: The Census at Bethlehem
      • The emergence of the winter landscape
      • Bruegel and the Two Faces of Summer
      • Bruegel's Peasant Wedding Feast
      • Lost in Translation: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel
      • Perception and Blindness in the 16th Century
      • "All life is here": Bruegel's 'Way to Calvary'
      • Bruegel's Icarus and the perils of flight
    • Lives and livelihoods >
      • The extraordinary career of Granville Redmond, deaf artist and silent movie actor
      • Rose-Marie Ormond: Sargent’s muse and “the most charming girl that ever lived”
      • 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
      • Should artists get royalties?
      • Strange encounters: the collector, the artist and the philosopher
    • Techniques and technology >
      • The Art of Shadows
      • 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 >
        • Art in a Speeded up World: overview
        • Changing concepts of time
        • The 'new' time in literature
        • 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 >
      • The dramatic life of a controversial masterpiece: Leonardo’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci
      • Deception and Misdirection: Hieronymus Bosch’s The Conjuror
      • Reflections on a Masterpiece: Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
      • An exploration of vision, reality and illusion
      • Carpaccio's Miracle on the Rialto
      • Masters of All they Survey -- Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews
      • Understanding Petrus Christus’ A Goldsmith in his Shop
      • Titian, Prudence and the three-headed beast
      • The origins of an Australian art icon
    • FINDING INFO
    • Most recent articles
    • Most popular articles
    • Country-by-country guide
    • Art timeline
    • Copyright and permissions
    • Contact us
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  • What readers say about us
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  • ARTICLES
  • FINDING INFO
  • Most recent articles
  • Most popular articles
  • Country-by-country guide
  • Art timeline
  • Copyright and permissions
  • Contact us
Art book and film reviews
  • Art book and film reviews
  • Reviews of art books
  • Reviews of art films
Cultural trends and changes
  • Cultural trends and changes
  • Gabriel Metsu and the gentle art of letter writing
  • Exploring Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street, Rainy Day
  • A very rich book for the very rich
  • Millet and the Angelus
  • The Two Women in White
  • Elsheimer’s Flight into Egypt: how it changed the boundaries between art, religion and science
  • Feathers, fashion and animal rights
  • On the Trail of the Last Supper
  • Floating pleasure worlds of Paris and Edo
  • 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
  • Catastrophes and scandals
  • Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat
  • Millais, Charles Dickens and the Holy Family
  • How one man saved the greatest picture in the world: Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection
  • Vermeer’s concert, the Gardner collection, and the art heist of the century
  • The Controversies of Constantin Brancusi: Princess X and the boundaries of art
  • 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
  • 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
  • Forgotten Women Artists #5 Thérèse Schwartze and the business of painting
  • Forgotten Women Artists: Christina Robertson: A Scottish artist in Russia
Lost and found art
  • Lost and found art
  • Emerging from Obscurity: Georges de La Tour's Musicians' Quarrrel
  • Murder, Caravaggio and The Taking of Christ
  • The rescue of the fabulous lost library of Deir al-Surian
  • Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel
  • The Sphinx of Delft: Jan Vermeer’s demise and rediscovery
  • Carpaccio’s double enigma: Hunting on the Lagoon and the Two Venetian Ladies
  • Bernardo Bellotto and the reconstruction of Warsaw
  • The discovery of an early graphic novel
  • Michelangelo's disputed Entombment
All about Bruegel
  • All about Bruegel
  • Seeing the light: Bruegel's Conversion of Saul
  • Bruegel’s White Christmas: The Census at Bethlehem
  • The emergence of the winter landscape
  • Bruegel and the Two Faces of Summer
  • Bruegel's Peasant Wedding Feast
  • Lost in Translation: Bruegel’s Tower of Babel
  • Perception and Blindness in the 16th Century
  • "All life is here": Bruegel's 'Way to Calvary'
  • Bruegel's Icarus and the perils of flight
Lives and livelihoods
  • Lives and livelihoods
  • The extraordinary career of Granville Redmond, deaf artist and silent movie actor
  • Rose-Marie Ormond: Sargent’s muse and “the most charming girl that ever lived”
  • 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
  • Should artists get royalties?
  • Strange encounters: the collector, the artist and the philosopher
Techniques and technology
  • Techniques and technology
  • The Art of Shadows
  • 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
  • Art in a Speeded Up World
  • Art in a Speeded up World: overview
  • Changing concepts of time
  • The 'new' time in literature
  • The 'new' time in painting
Early influences of photography
  • 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
  • Authenticity and meaning
  • The dramatic life of a controversial masterpiece: Leonardo’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci
  • Deception and Misdirection: Hieronymus Bosch’s The Conjuror
  • Reflections on a Masterpiece: Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
  • An exploration of vision, reality and illusion
  • Carpaccio's Miracle on the Rialto
  • Masters of All they Survey -- Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews
  • Understanding Petrus Christus’ A Goldsmith in his Shop
  • Titian, Prudence and the three-headed beast
  • The origins of an Australian art icon

Cultural trends and changes

Gabriel Metsu and the gentle art of letter writing
Exploring Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street, Rainy Day
A very rich book for the very rich
Millet and the Angelus 

The Two Women in White 
The rescue of the fabulous lost library of Deir al-Surian  
Elsheimer's Flight into Egypt: how it changed the boundaries between art, religion and science
Feathers, fashion and animal rights

Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel
On the Trail of the Last Supper
Floating Worlds of Paris and Edo
The emergence of the winter landscape: Bruegel and his predecessors
Toulouse-Lautrec, the bicycle and the women's movement
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From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Part 1
From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Part 2

The Futurists declare war on pasta
The art of giraffe diplomacy: 
Science becomes Art