Showing posts with label Leonardo da Vinci. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonardo da Vinci. Show all posts
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Watermeadows at Salisbury

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John Constable,  Landscape with goatherd and goats , 1823 Source for all images: Wikimedia Commons The V&A's Constable: Th...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Strange ridges and shadowy craters

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In 1973 Gerhard Richter made a series of paintings based on close-up photographs of oil paintings.  According to Mark Godfrey in 'Damage...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Vine and blue Appenine, convents and cypresses

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Fra Angelico, The Deposition from the Cross , 1432 Source: Wikimedia Commons Following on from my last post on Fra Angelico I'd l...
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Sunday, June 06, 2010

Landscape with the Penitent St Jerome

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Leonardo da Vinci, Landscape , 1473 Source: Wikimedia Commons The British Museum's 'Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance ...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Deluge

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Leonardo da Vinci, Deluge over a City , 1517-18 The V&A exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design brought to...
Friday, June 16, 2006

Bird’s Eye View of Western Tuscany

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It can seem that in sixteenth century Italy , artists and cartographers worked on a continuum between maps and landscape paintings. Leonard...
Friday, January 20, 2006

Thermal

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Photograph reproduced on the wall of the Science Museum, London In paintings like Thermal (1960) Peter Lanyon fused the roles of gli...