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Clare Woods RA on flowers, fear and pooling paint
From the Spring 2024 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA.
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Eve in the garden of Eden,
This plate illustrates the passage beginning on book 4, line 453 of the poem, in which Eve looks at her reflection in a lake in the garden of Eden. John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, which ...
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Chicksands Priory, in Bedfordshire, the seat of Sir George Osborn, Bt.,
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in a Collection of the most interesting & Picturesque views, Engraved by W. Watts From Drawings by the most eminent Artists. With descriptions of each View. - ...
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Raphael delivers his message to Adam and Eve,
This plate illustrates a passage beginning on book 5, line 519 of the poem. The angel Raphael, come to visit Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, delivers a message explaining free will and obedience ...
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Satan confronts Ithuriel and Zephon,
This plate illustrates a passage beginning on book 4, line 813 of the poem. Satan, having entered the garden of Eden to tempt Eve in a dream, is discovered by the angels Ithuriel and Zephon. John ...
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Satan observes Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden,
This plate illustrates the passage beginning on book 4, line 502 of the poem, in which Satan is tormented at the sight of Adam and Eve, 'Imparadised in one another's arms' in the garden of Eden. John ...
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Plate 27: Sarmatian cavalry fleeing the Roman army,
The Trajan's Column is a Roman triumphal column erected in Rome in 113 AD by emperor Trajan. Most likely constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus it was part of the ...
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Plate 50: Dacians being defeated by the Romans soldiers
The Trajan's Column is a Roman triumphal column erected in Rome in 113 AD by emperor Trajan. Most likely constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus it was part of the ...
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Gabriel awaits the arrival of Satan,
John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, which narrated the Creation and Fall of Adam and Eve, and spanned Heaven, Hell and Paradise, was a suitably epic undertaking to inspire some of John Martin's ...
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The Temple Of Jupiter Olympius At Agrigentum, Commonly Called The Temple Of The Giants. By C.R. Cockerell, Architect, A.R.A. F.S.A.
[London:]: Priestley And Weale., MDCCCXXX. All nine numbered plates are signed as drawn by C.R. Cockerell, and as engraved by Jas. Carter, apart from pl. 2, as ...
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The Anglican Cathedral Church of Saint James Mount Zion Jerusalem. By J.W. Johns Arch t.
Plates 1 (frontis.), [3] and [4] are signed as by I.W. Johns Archt. Plates 1, [2, 4, 5] are signed 'Griffiths Patent on steel (22 George Street, New Road)'; pl. [3] as lithographed by Standidge & Co.
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Is there such a thing as "boring" architecture?
Are there too many boring buildings? Join Thomas Heatherwick RA, Farshid Moussavi OBE RA and Austin Williams for a panel discussion that considers the role of judgement in architecture. Are we in the ...