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Scandalous nudes: what's all the fuss about? | Art UK
Aug 12, 2021 · Nude 1927. George Spencer Watson (1869–1934) Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library. It was the first painting in the collection of The Harris in Preston to feature a naked woman. As such, it was controversial, and some Councillors thought it would corrupt the morals of Prestonians. History has not recorded any specific debauchery or low moral ...
Study of Bathing Boys | Art UK
Falmouth, virtually surrounded by sea, enjoys a very special reflected light and Tuke studied it closely. He observed the rich colour in soft shadows and how sunlight reflects through and off the water. This is what sets him apart and led A. B. Cooper to aptly call him 'The Sunshine Painter'. The donor, Alfred de Pass (1861–1952), was a Cape ...
Sapphic sexuality: lesbian myth and reality in art and sculpture
Jul 27, 2020 · Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was an English sculptor, traveller and actress who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy at the turn of the nineteenth century. Damer moved in aristocratic circles and was a close friend of the prominent writer and Whig politician Horace Walpole. Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway) 1773.
Ten black British artists to celebrate | Art UK
Nov 23, 2016 · While Bowling has distanced his work from questions of race, he has nevertheless been a trailblazer in the British art scene. His work Spreadout Ron Kitaj was the first painting Tate Britain ever bought from a living black artist. In 2005, Bowling became the first black British artist to be elected to the Royal Academy, and in 2008 he received an OBE.
The bad place: a visual history of hell - Art UK
Oct 29, 2020 · In Giotto di Bondoneo's Last Judgement in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, a flow of lava cascades downwards towards a blue-black cave, bringing with it the bodies of the condemned who are to be put through a variety of inventive torments. Giotto's friend, the poet Dante Alighieri, is said to have visited the painter while he was working on the fresco.
Cleopatra's legacy in art: famous pharaoh and femme fatale
Mar 26, 2020 · Queen Cleopatra VII is remembered as history's temptress, a queen adept in the art of seduction – the ultimate femme fatale. But her story isn't so simple. Cleopatra's destiny as the ruler of Egypt expected much of her, and she faithfully obliged. Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 69 BC, Cleopatra hailed from the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic dynasty (named after Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy ...
Ten things to know about Albrecht Dürer - Art UK
May 21, 2021 · He was to become the leading figure of the Northern Renaissance, and his incredible art still resonates today. Here are a few facts about Albrecht Dürer. 1. He trained as a goldsmith. He was born the third of 18 children to Albrecht Dürer senior, who was a goldsmith, and Barbara Holper, whose father had employed the elder Albrecht.