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Boccaccio

Looking for a long read and fine art? Eight classic books with paintings

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From Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Goethe’s Faust, here are eight classic works of literature accompanied by superb paintings and illustrations. All free.

April 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Gods and goddesses of the week, a new series

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Reading many European paintings depends on identifying classical deities shown. This new series helps you do that, and understand what’s going on.

April 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Decameron: Index to stories and the finest paintings

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The seven painted stories, with paintings by Mei, Millais, Leighton, Botticelli, Stillman, and Lancret, and links to each article.

January 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Decameron: The suffering of Griselda

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The last story of the last day tells of a bride and mother who undergoes the senseless brutality of her husband, and three superb narrative panels telling the story.

January 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Decameron: The hundred and first story

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Buried in the introduction to day 4, this became La Fontaine’s fable of Brother Philippe’s Geese, was painted by Boucher and others, entered French idiom, and was alluded to by a vanished painting by Gauguin.

January 4, 2019 General, Language, Life, Painting

The best of 2018’s paintings and articles 2

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Review of paintings and related articles published here in the second half of 2018, starring Tintoretto, Gérôme. Bonnard, Schiele, and Poussin.

December 31, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Decameron: The wrong way to a man’s heart

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The story of Ghismonda and her lover Guiscardo is not well-known in paintings, but has been well covered, most recently by Hogarth.

December 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Decameron: The flowerpot’s grisly secret

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Three brothers murder their sister’s lover. A grisly story turned into a poem by John Keats, and a formative painting for the Pre-Raphaelites, and others.

December 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Decameron: Temptation of a faithful wife

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One rich gent falls in love with another rich gent’s wife, but she isn’t interested in him. She comes up with a ploy to be rid of his attentions, which backfires, but ends up in two glorious paintings.

December 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Decameron: Cimon and Iphigenia, a tale mostly untold in paint

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The most frequently-painted of Boccaccio’s hundred stories, shown here from Rubens to Frederic, Lord Leighton. But there’s much more to the story than that.

December 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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