British Murals Network

Member-run subgroup of #BritishArtNetwork supported by @tate @PaulMellonCentr @ace_national. British mural painting study days, visits, seminars and more.

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Viewers of #TheCrown may recognise Inigo Jones and Webb’s Double Cube room at Wilton, with ceiling by Thomas de Critz, depicting the story of Perseus, 1653. #MuralsMonday

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*immediately accelerates viewing programme*

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Don’t miss Burghley’s starring role as Windsor Castle in the new series of The Crown, streaming on @netflix on 15th November.

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It's #MuralsMonday. Corpus #deckenmalerei, #OrgulloBarroco.
Breese-im-Bruche Manor.
The ceiling of the castle chapel from 1595 has a Lutheran pictorial program and was painted by Hans Gödecke.
https://t.co/DUptFVCDed

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The Gallery of Charles XI at the Royal Palace of Stockholm

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It's #MuralsMonday. Corpus #deckenmalerei, #OrgulloBarroco.
Ludwigsburg-Eglosheim, Monrepos Palace, salon, ceiling.
Nicola Guibal: Adonis leaves Venus to go hunting (1763)
https://t.co/IWwUnuDUx8,

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‘The Apotheosis of Washington’ by Greek-Italian artist Constantino Brumidi (1865), presides over the dome of the US Capitol, Washington DC.
E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One #MuralsMonday

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It's #MuralsMonday. Corpus #deckenmalerei, #OrgulloBarroco.
Fachbach, Jens : Koblenz, Schloss, in: Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland, hg. von Stephan Hoppe, Hubert Locher und Matteo Burioni, 2020, URL: https://t.co/pv8ErRTEaE

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Antonio Verrio painted the ceilings ⁦@burghleyhouse⁩ but it was specialist gilder Rene Cousin who added the finishing touches. Gold highlights to the ciphers and architectural details bring the wow factor to the state bedchamber (1691). #MuralsMonday

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Very excited to see this new publication featuring @LydiaHamlett

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Thanks to @LydiaHamlett for her great essay.

[David Silkenat @davidsilkenat]

Love the new Frederick Douglass mural in Edinburgh

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It's #MuralsMonday. Corpus #deckenmalerei, #OrgulloBarroco.
View of a park with lake and palace (ca. 1780)
Formerly Bad Lobenstein, Christianenzell Palace, now in Molsdorf Palace.
© Bildarchiv Foto Marburg / Stiftung Thüringer Schlösser und Gärten / (CbDD) / Uwe Gaasch

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‘Orpheus’ from James Barry’s ‘The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture’, his mural series in the Great Room of the Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ⁦@theRSAorg⁩ 1777-87 #MuralsMonday

[Old Royal Naval College @orncgreenwich]

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Sir James Thornhill’s sketch for the staircase ⁦@HanburyHallNT⁩ in the collection of the ⁦@cooperhewitt⁩. In the final design, executed c.1710, Thornhill reversed most of the elements of the composition. #MuralsMonday

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It's #MuralsMonday. Corpus #deckenmalerei, #OrgulloBarroco.
Sondershausen, Sondershausen Castle, west wing, ballroom, ceiling
Johann Ludwig Meil: Origin of the constellation Great Bear (ca. 1770)
© Bildarchiv Foto Marburg / Foto: Haag, Paul

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#BackToSchool with St Ambrosius, one of the Doctors of the Church. In Sir James Thornhill’s chapel ⁦@WimpoleEstateNT⁩ c.1721 #MuralsMonday

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Heute morgen in der katholischen Schlosskapelle von Hubertusburg 1741-1751 mit Deckenmalerei von Giovanni Bartista Grone, das einzige erhaltene Deckengemälde des Malers, der auch die Ausmalung der Frauenkirche verantwortete. #Deckenmalerei #muralsmonday @badw_muenchen

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It's #MuralsMonday. Corpus #deckenmalerei, #OrgulloBarroco.
Mannheim Palace, Knights' Hall.
Cosmas Damian Asam: Banquet of the Olympic gods at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis (1728)
Reconstruction: 1953/1960
© Bildarchiv Foto Marburg / CbDD / Lechtape, Andreas / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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#MuralsMonday

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Boss Baby: a self-satisfied and lordly Love triumphs over the gods in this oil sketch for a ceiling by Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 18th C, @RMM_Rouen #MuralsMonday