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Princess, sorceress, seductress, wife, mother, and vengeful filicide – one of the most complex characters to paint. Known from her letter in Heroides, and a lost work by Ovid.
Like the Alma-Tademas, a Belgian family of talented painters who specialised in scenes set in Pompeii.
As the social message in his paintings faded, so they became brighter, and more appealing. Then he painted Ceres and dandelions…
Each of the paintings exhibited by Munch in 1895 tells a part of his story of ‘the life of the soul’, of love between man and woman. And of Munch’s own life.
Juno takes a day-trip to Hades in her bid to unleash one of the Furies on this unfortunate couple. A wonderful Brueghel which is as good as Bosch at his best.
A handscroll, copied from an original painted before 400 CE, tells a complex story in detail a millennium before the European Renaissance.
When Marco Polo brought the first porcelain to Europe, just how did it get its name? From Roman nursery slang, perhaps.
Who was Ovid, and how did he come to write so much on mythology? Illustrated with some fine paintings of his life by Poussin, Delacroix, and Turner.
Dragged to a dungeon by her hair, she had committed no crime – indeed, she had only been faithful to her husband.
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