More myths in a single painting than you’ll see anywhere else. But do they come together to form another narrative?
Botticelli
Best known as the most influential children’s book illustrator, he painted several narrative paintings too.
Painting is one of the oldest and most widely-accessible media for narrative. But narrative painting is also one of the least studied.
His “Mystic Nativity” is a real mystery painting. Here some of its puzzles are explained.
One of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance, and one of the later huge works in egg tempera, its interpretation remains controversial.
Examines the use of metonymy, synecdoche, and symbols in representative painting prior to ‘Modern Art’ in the twentieth century.
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