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How you should deal with devils

Saints Margaret and Michael subduing demons

Circle of Simone Martini, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, about 1340

At <Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350> exhibition, NGL

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Reds in Vincent's

Have you ever noticed red dots in Vincent van Gogh's paintings?

It was only recently that I did when I visited Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery London

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Picasso and his favourite artists

Velázquez and Picasso (*Velázquez was definitely his bias)

Picasso made 58 experimental paintings of Las Meninas by Velázquez.

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656

Picasso, Las Meninas, 1957

Photos by me at the Picasso Museum, Barcelona

Goya and Picasso

Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814

Picasso, Massacre in Korea, 1951

Lucas Cranach and Picasso

Lucas Cranach the Elder, David and Bathsheba, 1526

Picasso, David and Bathsheba (2nd State), 1947, Lithograph

Photos by me at the British Museum <Picasso: printmaker> exhibition

Watts and Picasso

Picasso may have been inspired by Watts' painting of a musician with a similar posture.

George Frederic Watts, Hope, 1886

Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903-4

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The Annunciations in art history

*Personal favourite - El Greco's (as you can see)

Armenian manuscript illuminator Toros Roslin, 13th century

Fra Angelico, c.1426

Botticelli, The Annunciation, ca. 1485-92

El Greco, The Annunciation, ca. 1596-1600

El Greco, The Annunciation, c.1600

El Greco, The Annunciation, 1614

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Annunciation, ca.1660

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ecce Ancilla Domini, 1850

+ More from NGL exhibition <Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350>