Let these paintings fool you: that’s what they’re all about. Happy April Fool’s Day!
Category Archive: Life
A challenge to painters: a story of a gender-changing seer, a nymph who becomes no more than an acoustic effect, and a young man who dies of self-love.
A story which has been told by a long succession of literary and musical works. But this painting is almost the only one to depict it visually.
One of the strangest of all myths, only two painters managed to approximate Ovid’s account.
It’s too easy to get blasé and careless with electricity. Don’t die in your bath: please follow these basic precautions.
The grandson of the founder of Thebes suffers a grisly fate when he stumbles across the goddess Diana bathing naked.
The Pre-Raphaelites lived intense and passionate lives. For Edward Burne-Jones, 1869 and 1870 were almost disastrous, when both art and life became too controversial.
The slaying of a dragon/serpent, and transformation of its teeth into warriors, make for five superb paintings spanning most of the story.
How many in the White House know the story of the memorial fountain just opposite – of Butt and Millet, Tennyson, and Oenone?
Less than 30 lines of the book are devoted to the abduction of Europa, which has become its best-known and most-often painted story.
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