Descending past the Minotaur of Crete, they reach a group of centaurs and travel on past famous killers, into a wood of thorn trees of those who committed suicide.
Category Archive: Life
Nicolas Poussin’s superb set from the end of his career, a series of women by Bouguereau, Delacroix’s set of myths, Mucha, Crane and a Japanese set from 1917.
Arcimboldo’s 4 in 1, two sets by Joos de Momper, one anthropomorphic the other of landscapes, and a splendid set by Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
Love is blind, so is Cupid, as well as the personification of Fortune. Also applied to those about to be executed, and to celebrate our sense of sight in a widespread game of blind man’s buff.
He taught, and travelled more. Paintings include ‘Death, the Reaper’ and one of the last of his major oil paintings, ‘A Masque for the Four Seasons’ with its references to Botticelli’s Primavera.
A woman spinning in front of her bed, a view of a street, a waterfront, marketplace, boats on the river, canals, windmills, a sandy beach, clouds, and frozen rivers – everyday life in the Golden Age.
In peinture Γ l’essence, the drying oil binder is removed from oil paint, and the remaining pigment is diluted with turpentine. This creates a fragile paint layer that is ephemeral.
The three Furies appear on top of the gate to Dis, and try to turn Dante to stone using the face of Medusa. Once allowed in, they meet some of the heretics in their burning tombs.
Is this Hecate, triple-headed goddess of the night, with owl and bats, or another of Blake’s mythology, representing spiritual beauty? A misidentified painting explained.
God seen as a master craftsman, forming the world, or a symbol of reason drawn from Blake’s own personal mythology? A painting explained.
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