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God of the Week: Pan (Faunus)

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Whether gentle, young and pipe-playing or hoary and older, he had the body of a man and the legs of a goat. Is he tender, or ribald?

November 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Whiskers: beards in paintings 1

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Beards on Father Time, river gods, God the Father, ancient mariners, and lots and lots of artists, especially the Nabis.

July 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Eros (Cupid)

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Was a primordial deity, attendant at Aphrodite’s birth, or her son by Ares/Mars? When did he get his bow and arrows? Answered in fine paintings.

July 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: The Birth of Aphrodite (Venus Anadyomene)

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Some of the greatest figurative artists including Botticelli, Titian, Poussin, Boucher, Ingres, Moreau, and Joseph Stella.

June 22, 2020 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

River Gods and Nymphs

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A common convention in paintings of classical myth, the river god was a bearded old man with a put pouring forth water, often seen with a Naiad, his daughter.

October 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 11a Pyrrhus

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A succession of victories, many by his personal bravery and leadership from the front. But ultimately they were unsuccessful – and Pyrrhic.

August 30, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Bathsheba and King David: 2 Differing views

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Rembrandt’s masterpiece looking deep into Bathsheba’s predicament, but it was von Stuck who first suggested that she may have been a willing participant.

August 19, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 79 – Pomona Seduced and Anaxarete Petrified

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How Vertumnus tried to trick Pomona into loving him, then told her a threatening story. Neither worked: it was being himself that won her in the end.

March 19, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Orientalism: the fantasy

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Paintings of odalisques, slave markets, and Turkish baths became popular in the nineteenth century. What was the Orientalist fantasy, and why?

January 6, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

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