Juno won’t let the labour of Hercules’ mother progress, so one of maids tricks Lucina into allowing the infant’s delivery, for which the maid is turned into a weasel.
Category Archive: Painting
Louise Upton Brumback moves from the harbour to the beaches, and with Marsden Hartley visits the abandoned settlement of Dogtown.
Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Homer, Willard Metcalf, Frederick Childe Hassam, and Frank Duveneck.
Middle class collectors came to like paintings of interiors, sometimes without any figures at all. Others were Orientalist, or told open-ended narrative.
A prolific painter of everything from landscapes to mythology, he trained in Karlsruhe, travelled widely, but struggled to establish his art in the years to 1885.
Mow the grass, scatter it about, gather it in windrows, cock it, scatter then windrow it again, until it’s dry and ready to stack. How to make hay the hard way.
Human in their upper body, and fish from the waist down, these aren’t sirens at all, but have their own mythology in many traditions.
When the centaur Nessus tried to abduct Hercules’ wife, he was impaled by an arrow. He set up the later death of the hero, who was destroyed by poison in his own arrow.
Paintings continue with three sketches by Honoré Daumier, and set pieces by Hispaleto, telling the misadventures of Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
Enormously popular across Europe, Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ led to some fine narrative paintings, but why so few even in the 19th century?
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