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Art History January 2025
Posted on 10th January 2025This seasonal painting, ‘Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap’ was made in 1565 by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder and is in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels. It shows a village scene where people skate on a frozen river, while on the right among trees and bushes, birds gather around a … Read more
Art History – July 2024
Posted on 16th August 2024In July we explored ‘The Battle of San Romano’ by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello. This is a set of three paintings showing events that took place at the battle between Florentine and Sienese forces in 1432. The paintings are in egg tempera on wooden panels, each over 3 metres long and were commissioned by … Read more
Art History May2024
Posted on 8th June 2024In May, we took a pictorial trip to the beach with members choosing paintings on the theme of ‘At the Seaside’. This subject was especially popular with the Impressionist painters as they were able to take their tubes of oil paints and portable easels out into the open air. Here is a small selection of … Read more
Art History – March 2024
Posted on 8th May 2024In March we watched ‘The Story of Women and Art’,a DVD about the life and work of some of the women artists from the Italian Renaissance and the 17th century Dutch Republic. The artists included Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana and Clara Peeters. We were then able to share and discuss the information we … Read more