Tracing Blake’s influence through his friends John Linnell and Samuel Palmer to the likes of Graham Sutherland and Eric Ravilious.
Month: January 2017
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Blake did not exercise his genius and vision in isolation. Here are some paintings by those who influenced him most.
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From the 1870s, Salome became the central figure in the story, and increasingly became the femme fatale: beautiful, sexy, and dangerous to know.
Clarifying different types of web link, making custom badges, and using the Timeline to explore the origin of a new version of a story.
Some paintings which may not show the traditional story from the gospels, but which don’t contradict it.
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Salome has become a femme fatale, the author of John the Baptist’s death, and a potent erotic symbol. But that was not the original story.
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