From Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Goethe’s Faust, here are eight classic works of literature accompanied by superb paintings and illustrations. All free.
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Orlando discovers that Angelica has already married, and goes mad. Paintings by Delacroix, Böcklin, frescoes and Doré’s prints.
Summary of the plot in the first half of Ariosto’s epic, with links to detailed accounts, and paintings by Delacroix, Rubens, Böcklin, Ingres and others.
Some personal, even intimate wedding paintings, from Rubens, Hans Gude, William Frith, and two Naturalists. And they all lived happily ever after.
Details of how to get different news feeds from each part of this blog, and how to find information from its over 5,000 articles.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 44. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Display […]
The Marriage Feast at Cana, and works by Botticelli, von Carolsfeld, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti featuring wedding feasts.
For all their compactness and ease of access, are our files going to prove less durable than a clay tablet recording a commercial transaction over 4,000 years ago?
The first caused war between centaurs and humans, in the second many were turned into stone, and the third caused the Trojan War
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: Maybe for […]
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