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Brueghel

Paintings of the Four Elements: 2 after 1600

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After 1600, series of four paintings fell from favour, and artists, particularly the Brueghel family, combined all into single images.

February 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Cybele (Magna Mater), Mother of the Gods

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An exotic import until the Romans enlisted her support against the Carthaginians, her chariot is drawn by a lion and lioness – who desecrated an old shrine.

February 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Chloris (Flora), transformation

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Two masterpieces of the Western canon turn a minor tale about a nymph into major narratives: Botticelli and Poussin explored.

February 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

From world view to panorama: 1 World views

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From an elevated viewpoint, finely detailed, great depth, figures and buildings tiny in the immensity of the view, far distant horizon – it’s a World View.

February 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: The Charites or Graces

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Aglaea (representing splendor), Euphrosyne (mirth), and Thalia (good cheer), who together represent the better aspects of human nature, bit got Burne-Jones into trouble.

January 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting sculpture: 1 Senses, rude Romans, and sculptors

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Although painting and sculpture are closely allied, it’s curious to depict sculpture in painting. Examples range from early grisailles to ribald depictions of the Roman god Priapus.

October 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Hospitality to strangers, a theme in narrative painting 1

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Three classical myths – Atlas turned to stone, Philemon and Baucis, and Leto and the Lycians turned into frogs. Why you should always show hospitality to strangers.

September 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Hades (Pluto)

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Seen with his three-headed dog Cerberus, the god of the Underworld. Paintings by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens and others.

September 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Leto (Latona), mother of Apollo and Artemis

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Not well known now, she features in two myths which have been extensively painted by Tintoretto, Carracci, Brueghel, and Claude Lorrain.

August 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: The Erinyes (Furies)

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Paintings by Klimt, Bouguereau, Moreau, von Stuck, and John Singer Sargent’s last vast masterpiece in Boston.

June 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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