More rich narratives, including Titania and Bottom, Falstaff, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Odysseus, Satan, Lady Macbeth, and Fairy Mab.
Blake
By William Blake, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Edward Burne-Jones and others, Edward Stott, Albin Egger-Lienz, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Kazimierz Sichulski.
By William Blake, Gérôme, Fritz von Uhde, Maurice Denis, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, and Joseph Stella. Merry Christmas!
After the people of Aegina are almost wiped out by a plague, Jupiter gives its king an army of hard workers who became the fearsome Myrmidons in the Trojan War.
Largely restricted among Classical deities to Hermes, Cupid, and personifications of winds, heavenly bodies, and events, the gift of flight extends to angels and even saints.
From William Hogarth’s series “A Harlot’s Progress”, to the descent of the seamstress from sewing machine to prostitution. A popular 19th century story.
The humble beast of burden, carrying drunken kings, Mary and the infant Jesus, the Good Samaritan, Sancho Panza, and young lambs.
Essential pigments for the landscape artist: green earths, malachite, verdigris, copper resinate, Prussian green, viridian, and emerald green.
The primary attribute of Iris, with the soothing song of Amphitrite, bearing the Norse deities to Valhalla, the sign of God’s covenant after the Flood, and at the Last Judgement.
Although conflated with another Mary, she features in her own right in paintings of the Deposition, as Myrrhbearer, and Noli me tangere.
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