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The shot on the left is just astonishing. And in its spareness, with just the kingfisher and branch, it also reminds me of Ruskin's lovely sketch in the Ashmolean.

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2020-08-11

Elephants fighting signed Khurshid Banu, 1600. Women miniature artists are poorly documented, but they do exist, even within the Mughal royal family, as attested by this fine image now at the Ashmolean

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2020-07-15

A pesar de eso, como nos señala la historiadora Germaine Greer, no se evitó el intento de usurpación y curiosamente en un dibujo preparatorio conservado en el Ashmolean Museum, apareció la firma del pintor John Everett Millais ¿Tal vez para venderlo mejor?

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2020-07-08

2/2 The Arundel Marbles, now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He would have approved!

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2020-07-08

アンソニー・ヴァン・ダイク『白いエプロンの少女』1630年頃、アシュモレアン美術館
Anthony van Dyck, Portrait of a Young Girl in a White Apron, C.1630, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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2020-06-29

More Shakespearian themes for this week's
Elizabeth Siddal- 'The Macbeths' (c.1860 Ashmolean)
Julia Margaret Cameron- 'King Lear allotting his Kingdom to his three daughters' (1872) & 'Ophelia' (1875)
Lucy Madox Brown- 'Romeo & Juliet' (1870 Wightwick Manor)

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2020-04-26

Love the Ashmolean I worked next door at the Institute for a decade and went as often as poss. I think this shield is one of their most significant items. It’s a Nipperwiese class Late Bronze Age object from Long Wittenham (Oxon) 1/2

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2020-04-10

For this week's Dantean-themed
'Beatrice meeting Dante at a marriage feast, denies him her salutation' (watercolour 1855, Ashmolean)
An award-winning feat of chilly rebuffery!

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2020-02-20

Join from 24 January for a major exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits, over 500 years. https://t.co/Vpcnqx7xhr

Image: Detail of Textile Panel with Embracing Figures © Ashmolean Museum

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2020-01-17

Day 11: Singing Pierides painted by Henry Stacy Marks on The Great Bookcase by William Burges (1827-1881)

Via Libri Usati e Antichi

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2019-12-11

Sculptor, illustrator, poet & original member of the PRB Thomas Woolner died in 1892. Attached Woolner's portrait by DGR, his bust of PRB patron Thomas Coombe (Ashmolean), a frontispiece illustration & Holman Hunt's illustration to Woolner's poem 'My Beautiful Lady' (1850)

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2019-10-07

Lucian Freud
Small Naked Portrait, 1973-74
oil on canvas
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

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2019-08-16

2/2 The Arundel Marbles, now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He would have approved!

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2019-07-07

Raphael’s drawings and sketches are in many ways more expressive than his finished, perfected paintings ~ Heads of Two Apostles 1520 (detail, Ashmolean) ■ Self-portrait as Young Man 1499 (Ashmolean) ■ Man Carrying Old Man on Back 1514 (Albertina, Vienna)

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2019-04-16

Seeing my illustrations of speakers at the conference displayed around the brilliant Ashmolean museum was a special moment

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2019-04-05

MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl
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Red chalk on paper, pen and ink, 288 x 194 mm
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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2019-03-28

The elephant Ganesh Gaj and rider north India, 1660 - 1670 from The Collection of Howard Hodgkin at The Ashmolean Museum.

Elephants were highly valued by the rulers of India, for their power in battle and their majestic dignity as ceremonial mounts.

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2019-03-21

An extensive Jeff Koons retrospective will be coming to UK's Ashmolean Museum in Spring 2019

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2018-11-03

UK's Ashmolean Museum has announced an extensive Jeff Koons retrospective will be coming in Spring 2019

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2018-10-30