Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Rachael Cummings-Naylor

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Crafting Kingship: Hellenistic Royal Portraiture

"A standardised visual vocabulary of royal ideology represented by statues and coinage"

Is art a form of political propaganda?

Art has been employed throughout history as a political tool to propagate ideas of power and ideology and challenge them. However, art is a...

Yevonde: The woman who revolutionised colour photography

“Portrait photography without women would be a sorry business.” (Yevonde Middleton, 1921) I walked into the Yevonde: Life and Colour exhibition at the National Portrait...

A Summer as a Volunteer at the National Portrait Gallery

The ‘Long Vac’ is called ‘long’ for a reason and I did not want to waste a second of it. When I saw...

“A Must-See”: Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean

I did not know what to expect when I arrived at the Ashmolean to preview their newest exhibition, Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion &...

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