Spike Geilinger

Socialist, artisan, Brightonian, Italophile, Wavian, gastronaut, oenophile, technophobe, husband, father, insomniac.

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@arthistorynews I fear I have been brainwashed - the lack of proper Paladian proportions offends my aesthetic sensibilities.

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@arthistorynews Awesome.

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@QuadRoyal Bravo Susannah, most entertaining.

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@arthistorynews We experienced exactly the same thing in the TV colour grade when we made the Lost Masterpieces episode. Balancing the darkness with the detail is so difficult. I always wonder how much of Caravaggios work he saw when he was in Rome.

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An epic thunderstorm in Guatemala began simultaneously with the eruption of Mount Fuego

Footage taken by eyewitnesses shows lightning striking directly into the mouth of the volcano.

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@thehistoryguy Another shoot, another wall. March 2007.

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@RevRichardColes

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@PaulCAFCRussell i think so too, but Facebook disagree, and are not convinced I have made a good enough case to 'verify' myself

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@arthistorynews A favourite: Rainstorm over the sea, Brighton.

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@arthistorynews @creativecommons Excellent news.

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Image fees - important statement from Creative Commons on the new copyright situation in the UK.

They also remind museums to *not* use Creative Commons licences on images of historic artworks - because these images are now free for everyone to use!

https://t.co/KZcW6imeYu

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@DalrympleWill Peter Kosminsky's 'The Promise', made for C4 in 2011, was good. It alerted me to my ignorance of the Nakba at a time when I was working in Tel Aviv on a Holocaust survivor documentary. It inspired me to see as much as I could of Palestinian culture and I found Jaffa fascinating.

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Strange bedfellows: @arthistorynews and an AI algorithm. Tucked away in this report is the news that both think there is a good chance the Haddo Madonna was painted by Raphael.

Mystery of Raphael masterpiece may have been solved by Bradford-made AI https://t.co/vFso3peQ1Z

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@PaintingsLondon Also in Ireland, 'Daylight Raid from My Studio Window, 7 July 1917' by John Lavery. The figure is Hazel Lavery who featured on the Irish pound note for many years.

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@arthistorynews Bravo Bendor, I am greatly looking forward to reading it, and looking at the pictures.

[Stephanie Hawthorne @HawthorneSJJ]

Clocks go back 1 hour this Sunday. This needless change means higher energy costs, more road accidents, more heart attacks, more depressive illness. It damages the economy with UK in darkness by 5pm next week. Fewer old pple venture out on dark nights too https://t.co/meSEiGGUrR

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@FrannyMoyle Amazing little room that, the bust by Bernini somehow emphasises what a great portrait the painting is.

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@arthistorynews Monet made a similar claim when his first wife Camille died. He felt compelled to reach for his paints to try and capture the colour draining from her face.

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@ApmNeill So true. Love them all.

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