Rape, ejection from society, transformation into a bear, then into a constellation: poor Callisto, but some superb narrative paintings.
Category Archive: Life
One of the most dramatic and vivid myths, causing a ‘Great Fire’ which matches the Flood. Superb paintings from Rubens, Poussin, Moreau.
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A triple bill of myths, ingeniously interwoven into a story with four different metamorphoses – and some superb paintings.
Who or what exactly is Cupid? How did a mischievous and rather obese infant come to represent love?
Never mock Cupid. As Apollo found it, he’ll get his own back in the cruellest of ways.
Exploring different verbal and visual accounts of the story of the murder of Astyanax during the fall of Troy.
Do the authors not have clue what they are writing about, or are they peddling alternative truths? One boxout disassembled.
The Greek version of the Flood myth is quite different, and calls on sculpture for another metamorphosis. It also gives rise to the fearsome Python.
Did Jupiter destroy cannibalistic practices, or did a cult of his originate them? Dark doings in this tale of lycanthropy.
