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LGBTQ+ themes in Echo and Narcissus? 🏳️🌈 Let's take a look:
Narcissus’s beauty attracts the attention of men, women, mortals and gods. Ancient Greeks were comfortable with the idea of sexuality being fuelled by attraction and desire, not just by gender. 👉
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✨Our Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque treasures are back!✨
Renaissance Rediscovered opens on 29 July with magnificent Old Masters; a dedicated gallery for drawings, prints and watercolours, and a stunning selection of decorative arts, dating from 1200 to 1700 💕✨1/2
Born on this day in 1839, the French painter Paul Cézanne is best known for his monumental landscape paintings.
'The Murder' is one of Cézanne's early paintings, an unusually dramatic piece which conveys the brutality of the act.
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Feast your eyes on this incredibly detailed painting, currently being prepared for our Renaissance Rediscovered galleries, opening next summer.
Adoration of the Magi, Neapolitan School (about 1700-1725)
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Our thoughts are with the friends, families and readers of Shirley Hughes today, who has passed away aged 94. Many visitors will remember the exhibition of her paintings and illustrations held here at the Walker in 2003. (1/4)
There are around 100 loaned paintings on show as part of 'Sickert: A Life in Art', including these beautiful works from @PallantGallery. This Sunday is your last chance to see them here at the Walker! Exhibition closes 27 Feb ⏰ https://t.co/Qjv2RKd09c
There's nothing like a creepy child holding a creepy doll to give you the chills. We can thank Charles Compton for this eerie depiction of Evelyn Compton his daughter.
In this work he was examining the relationship between mankind and the natural world. The landscape contains symbols of sexuality and fruitfulness: the flying bird, the bubbling spring, the phallic pipes. 2/2
On this day Joshua Reynolds was born. This portrait is typical of his style after his trip to Italy in 1752. The sculptural pose of the figure and the heavy column in the background gives it an air of grandeur. #OTD
The Struggle for Existence was painted by George Bouverie Goddard who at the age of 10 was heralded as a young genius for his skill in drawing. #dogeatdog