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Baroque
Artemisia Gentileschi: A Changing Landscape for the Discourse of Art History
July 6, 2019Much 16th and 17th century art focuses on mythological tropes and origin stories which are deeply embedded in misogyny and sexual violence. Gendered violence was aetheticised, rape heroised. In accordance with ‘the male gaze’, these were...
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dailyart
Crossing the Sword Bridge. Sir Lancelot of the Lake in Medieval Art
July 5, 2019The 12th century saw the rise of secular literature centred on heroes. Courtly poetry and prose took up themes of love and chivalry. These stories were the popular culture of the time, Sir Lancelot of the...
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Art State of Mind
10 Facts about The Last Supper by Leonardo You Should Know
June 28, 2019The legendary 15th century painter Leonardo da Vinci has an impressive legacy of artwork that leaves people astonished and awestruck even today. The maestro has left behind a huge number of artworks and sculptures that played a...
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20th century
Black Is Beautiful: Kwame Brathwaite at the Skirball Center
June 15, 2019Let’s play a game: pick up any magazine from a U.S. newsstand and count how many people of color are featured. Now try playing with a magazine from the 1950’s. Depending on which magazine you chose,...
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dailyart
Gentle Giant in the River. Medieval Representations of Saint Christopher
May 21, 2019In 1904, an extensive report made for the British Archaeological Association revealed that in England there were more wall paintings of Saint Christopher than of any other saint. However, this gentle giant of a man was...
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dailyart
A House of Their Own: The Red Rose Girls
May 18, 2019In an old house in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century, four women made their home and their art together. Three decades before Virginia Woolf’s seminal essay A Room of One’s Own was published,...
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Architecture
Discovering Camelot: Arthurian Art in Poland
April 12, 20191887 saw a significant discovery in the field of medieval art, though at the time nobody, not even the discoverer himself, was aware of the real value of his find. The discoverer was one Wilhelm Klose,...
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