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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

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 42 The Death of Meleager, and the Feast of Achelous

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Meleager is burned to death by proxy, his sisters transformed to guinea hens. Then Achelous transforms nymphs into islands.

September 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 32 – Boreas and Orithyia

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The North Wind carries off his betrothed, in eight superb paintings by Rubens, Boucher, Evelyn De Morgan, and others. A miniature history of painting.

July 11, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 9 – The abduction of Europa

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Less than 30 lines of the book are devoted to the abduction of Europa, which has become its best-known and most-often painted story.

March 10, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 4 – Jupiter & Io, Mercury & Argus, Pan & Syrinx

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A triple bill of myths, ingeniously interwoven into a story with four different metamorphoses – and some superb paintings.

February 19, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Coming of Cupid: Will you be my Valentine?

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Who or what exactly is Cupid? How did a mischievous and rather obese infant come to represent love?

February 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

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