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Back to Index I recently traced my family tree all the way back to Adam, and to 4004 BCE – (see here) though several steps did appear to be a little dubious or mythical. However with the source being the Bible and the Qu’ran I am relaxed about that. But it got me to thinking […]

The similarity of their names, Manet and Monet, their similar beards, the fact that they were both Paris born, both lived in the 19th century, both significant early Impressionists, both marrying their model/muse – this all leads to confusion between these two French artists. As we shall see Manet was born eight years earlier but […]

A simple quiz for you, see how you do with these ten questions. BTW – the image on this page is, of course, Henri Matisse.

Fine art and sculpture certainly inspires emotions, but it also often chooses to depict emotions: Happiness – producing images that promote positive emotions is probably motivated as a form of early community building. This first statuette is from 7th c Meso-America and the other is from 12th c Cambodia. Portraits are most often formal likenesses, […]

Portraiture was the French Academy’s second-most important genre in its hierarchy. It described this as focusing on ‘capturing likeness’, this genre was lucrative, but less well-thought-of than history painting. Portraitists were derided for simply copying nature rather than inventing, though few portraits were executed entirely from life. Self-portraits act as a historical record of the […]