Author archives: Phil Punton

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  • The Hatton Gallery Living Paintings Event

    • The Historic and Mythical Imagery group recreated two beautiful Old Masters held by the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle. The two painting chosen were the 'Drunken Noah' and the 'Lamentation' displayed below. This was something a little new to our group as it was an event where the public were abl[...]

  • Bust of a man with a beard Rembrandt

    • The title says it all really this is out interpretation of one of the many portraits pained by Rembrandt. of a man with a beard the reference to bald head does help to narrow the selection down a little but we still had quite a few portraits to choose from. Our interpretation The Origi[...]

  • Portrait of a young girl Alexei Harlamoff

    • A Harlamoff learned his skills copying old master paintings such as Rembrandt's Anatomy Lessons. He painted many military scene's and covered religious subjects in his early years. When his career evolved he became a respected portrait painter with important sitters as Tsar Alexander II, Prince [...]

  • The last supper

    • Text required Our Interpretation The Last Supper is a late 15th-century mural painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci housed by the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. It is one of the western world's most recognizable paintings. The original [...]

  • Macbeth Witches Victoria Francis

    • Victoria Francés and her popular style are inspired by the Gothic movement, and her work is considered a model to follow in terms of illustration within this genre: ghostly women wearing long dresses with vampirical attributes. Her illustrations tend to depict solitary characters, young women or co[...]

  • The Desperate Man Gustavo Courbet

    • The self-portrait has long been employed by artists to convey different messages or psychological states in their art. In fact, the exploration of the inner being through self-representation has been well documented among some of the most influential and monumental figures in Western and Eastern ar[...]

  • The Accolade Edmund Blair Leighton

    • Leighton  Blair painted in the era of Victorian Romanticism. He was a historical genre painter who painted mainly medieval themes. He often painted elegant and beautiful ladies in landscapes or interiors. Some of his paintings include: Lady Godiva and Abelard and His Pupil. The Accolade is [...]

  • Supper at Emmaus Caravaggio

    • In the collection of Marchese Patrizi by 1624 and possibly commissioned by him, references by Caravaggio's early biographers Giulio Mancini and Giovanni Bellori suggest it was painted in the few months after May 1606 when the artist was in hiding on the estates of Prince Marzio Colonna following th[...]

  • The Entombment of Christ

    • Caravaggio  The Entombment of Christ, is considered one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces, was commissioned by Girolamo Vittrice for his family chapel in S. Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) in Rome. In 1797 it was included in the group of works transferred to Paris in execution of the[...]