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Just guessing mostly.

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@psframes Fascinating! Could you speak a bit about the reverse profile? Are there any rules or conventions for going with a reverse profile? This one is indeed from 17th c or a reproduction?

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@HistoricEngland I have never been there. From photos, I judge it favorably as a work of its time. We can now look back at that moment and appraise all the different pomo gambits with a little perspective. I think this one should make us smile.

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@Sino_Market Yeah but are my shares really worth anything?

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@cullenroche Isn't that what Twitter is?

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@ahistoryinart Should be ranked up there with Cadmus, Tooker, French, Koch but wasn't in New York and I think that made a difference. Also, died young, just when the return to figuration was gaining steam.

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@ahistoryinart @paulg Early work was the most innovative and original perspective since cubism. Do you have any idea why he turned away from it and became more naturalistic later on?

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@MastersSwimming and better technique to make up for lost strength and stamina

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@SPloeg Reservations and a two-queue entry system, one for locals, another for tourists. Charge more for the latter. If they can afford to come half-way across the world, they can afford to pay more for cultural services.

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@RembrandtsRoom In something of the same spirit, Degas relied on Mary Cassatt for tricky poses that he did not think a model would understand.

h/t curators of Manet/Degas at @metmuseum.

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@MastersSwimming good article. always good to get back to basics.

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@doristhehat The rocks in the distance?

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@MulraineArt There's a lot of bravura in Tissot. A painting like A Garden Bench from 1882 has a painterly fervor that Monet might envy. Often, his finish is not really as polished as it seems in reproduction. It's just that, a bit like Sargent, he was so damn good that it seems that way.

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@ahistoryinart His drawings probably led to increased funding for the admirals who later employed him.

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@last_of_england Pattern seems a bit drab for a Paisley origin.

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@jsf @NYTmag Fascinating! A big, ambitious argument. Did you consider the thesis the other way around? Modernism not a century of progress but rather an aberration we are slowly waking from? If so, some parts of what you see, like return to "content," make sense.

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@JohnConstableRA Usually hidden behind glass in the Study Room. Worth searching out.

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@DrFrancisYoung 18th c. boats are much cooler.

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@ahistoryinart The best nocturnalist since Grimshaw?

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@kylesockwell Alfred Nakache (1915–1983). Half the pools in France are named after him.

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@bo66ie29 The shoes, the damn shoes hurt.