Two transformations: Dryope changes into a Lotus Tree, and the incestuous Byblis becomes a spring.
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The majority of portraits and genre paintings of women washing clothes are thoroughly demur, without the slightest innuendo.
One king trusts his daughter into the care of his son-in-law, another king. What happens next is horrific, and shown brilliantly by Artemisia Gentileschi and Rubens.
Who or what exactly is Cupid? How did a mischievous and rather obese infant come to represent love?
On the ceiling of a stairway of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is one of Sargent’s last and greatest paintings: one of the greatest narrative paintings of the 20th century.
Her portraits are of the New Woman: well-educated, thoughtful, and increasingly in control of their own destiny.
One of the most influential painters of the early 20th century, he founded the Ashcan School, and was a major landscape painter of the time.
What do Bosch’s many owls signify? Wisdom, night, or something more sinister?
The availability and use of modern pigments was a major factor in determining Impressionist painting style.
The methods used for a more robust analysis of palettes, which is unique and innovative.
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