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by Laurence Shafe

Benjamin West (1738-1820), 'The Death of General Wolfe', 1770, National Gallery of Canada, detail

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  • Manet, Modernity and Parisian Life
  • Why did Manet’s Olympia so shock the critics of 1865?
  • Seurat’s Technique
  • The Functions of the Academy of Art in Nineteenth Century France
  • The Depiction of the Female Nude in Sixteenth_century Italian Art
  • With what justification can Italian architecture of the period 1250-1400 be described as Gothic
  • The Panel Painter’s Workshop
  • Technical problems of manuscript Illumination
  • The Wilton Diptych

 

 

 

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