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Depictions of Venice that demonstrate the different styles of three painters from about the same era ~ Manet’s realism, Monet’s more dreamlike visions and Sargent’s immediacy

JUST PUBLISHED: Our latest Journal article examines Bruegel’s The Census at Bethlehem, a masterpiece that was probably the first-ever painting of a White Christmas, and one of the first times that a painter ever depicted this pivotal Biblical episode https://t.co/GEYt3KSjA6

The setting for Bruegel’s ‘The Blind Leading the Blind’ (1568) was based on the villages near Brussels where he lived, and include the Church of St Anna-Pede at Dilbeek (detail), which still stands today (far R) https://t.co/qDJqPIFYw6

3 easy steps to make a fortune: (1) check all those old paintings in the attic (2) pick out any that look just like this (3) check the signature is like this (far R). Congratulations! You may have the world’s most valuable lost painting (Vermeer, The Concert 1664, stolen 1990)

Lord Byron, born #OTD 1788, stares out his window in Venice, scratching his head for poetic ideas, aided by solicitous devil perched on his shoulder. His spaniel dog, one paw on volume of Don Juan, uses hind leg to scratch its own head in sympathy (1823)
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An inspired van Gogh did a painting a day while at Auvers-sur-Oise for his last two months, before shooting himself in a field. Here are some of those works, his legacy to us ~ Blossoming Chestnut Blossoms (stolen in 2008, recovered 9 days later) / Woman with Straw Hat / Plain

It’s an intriguing idea that mouse fur eyebrows were used by fashionable 18C ladies, though the evidence is largely anecdotal, or satirical, as in this cartoon ~ they’re advertised above the door along with ivory teeth ~ or Swift’s poem, extracted at R
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Three centuries separate these two views of Toledo. Although from same viewpoint, their styles present a contrast ~ a celebration of light & flattened perspectives by a young Diego Rivera (1912) ■ a study of dramatic intensity in this rare landscape by a mature El Greco (1598)

500 years ago, Hans Holbein sketched Sir Thomas More ~ Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII / author of political satire Utopia / executed for treason / saint ■ his 15-year-old ward/future daughter-in-law Anne Cresacre ■ & his father John More
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Some great examples of how 16th century master painter Pieter Bruegel enjoyed hiding his main characters in plain sight ~ Virgin & child in The Census at Bethlehem / the ignominious fall of Icarus / the fallen Christ in The Way to Calvary (circled + detail)