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Interesting to see how Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks developed in these preliminary sketches and details (1942)
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Interesting to compare the different approaches by artists Eric Ravilious (at L) & Adrian Allinson (R) to similar subjects in English landscape. At top, their views of Beachy Head ■ at bottom, they depict water reflections in a landscape (Newt Pond / The River Ouse at Lewes)

Spreading a bit of joy with the great Ronald Searle ~ Santa’s reindeer prove helpful on those higher chimneys (L), though some are prone to log-off the job, like the book-bubbly-and-chocolate-lover at R. Other times, they’re just his good pals (far R)

To judge from some medieval manuscripts, it seems that whenever a knight was not busy rescuing maidens, he liked to hone his fighting skills by attacking snails. Seems fair enough, both have body armour
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Care to hazard a guess as to the artist of this social realist painting? He was 15 at the time & used his father as model for the doctor. The artist’s name?....
(Picasso, Science and Charity, 1897, Picasso Museum, Barcelona)

Caught in the act ~ Mrs Fiske-Warren & daughter Rachel are sitting for a portrait by John Singer Sargent ■ they catch sight of a photographer ■ they laugh as Sargent swings round in surprise ■ & here’s the finished product (1903)

Some people get a bit sniffy about paintings based on photographs, but many famous artists have used photos as working aids in their art. Here are examples from Toulouse-Lautrec (The Last Crumbs), Cézanne (The Bather) and Mucha (Emerald)
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19th century self-taught artist Priscilla Susan Bury’s studies of the “brilliant and fugitive beauties” of lilies & related plants, in her rare large-format A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, first published in 1831 https://t.co/ftjponNhmr

A major 2014 restoration dramatically transformed the paintings in Carpaccio’s St Ursula cycle, by removing centuries of darkened varnish, inappropriate retouching & discolouration. Here’s his restored Arrival in Cologne (1490) and how it looked before
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From 2,000 years ago ~ remarkably-conserved frescoes from the Villa of Livia, wife of the Emperor Augustus. The villa was rediscovered in 16C just outside Rome & was probably part of the dowry Livia brought to her marriage in 39 BC (Palazzo Massimo Museum)