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Primaticcio was an Italian Mannerist, which means he enjoyed putting elongated nudes into bizarre, heavily stylized situations. There is one on the left of this painting.
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The Trojan War in art:
Paris absconds from Sparta with Helen, but how much consent was involved?
Hypothesis 3: None. She was abducted, as depicted in this painting by Francesco Primaticcio

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Angelica Kauffman was a renowned painter of big, historical, neoclassical paintings, & portraits. She was 1 of only 2 female founding members of the Royal Academy. She had a colourful love life: her first husband was a bigamist & a fraud, who passed himself off as a Swedish Count

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Looks like it’s a thing. There’s a niche of the web I’d been blissfully unaware of, until today

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A link to some of the learning model ideas referenced in the thread. https://t.co/dClCL6Ux1M

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… is that with such vast & rapid change, a proper response also includes forming new connections between facts, revising our mental categories & in short working out how to interpret all that is coming in. The deep work of taking stock.
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There is much in the media about impact of misinformation & distribution of fake facts. There is much written, too, about the assault on the trust we used to place in experts.
Just as important, during the quadruple disruption of pandemic, climate, war & cost of living…
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A short thought about our unsettled times, based on the idea there are 3 modes of learning:
1. Accretion—learning new facts
2. Tuning—becoming expert in fields/activities that one is already familiar with
3. Restructuring—new structures to interpret & organize information
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Finally, Mary Ellen Croteau. Judgement of Paris, yes. But in this painting it’s Paris who is being judged.

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What is Cézanne doing here? He knows how to paint faces & hands, right? So the botch job he does of both must be deliberate. He’s emphasizing action & motion vs. the usual static beauty pageant, & prioritizes colour vs. shape, almost blending subjects into their background. 2of4

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