Maids toiling at food preparation and washing clothes in the sculleries and utility rooms in the basement. Among them is Vermeer’s Milkmaid, and some of Degas’ working women.
Burne-Jones
Perseus and Andromeda, the death of Medusa, Proserpine abducted by Pluto to Hades, weaving contest between Minerva and Arachne, Lycians turned into frogs, Marsyas flayed, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and the origins of Theseus.
Example paintings showing instantaneous, multi-image, multi-frame and polymythic narrative, from Poussin to Waterhouse.
From the maid washing the linen and Cinderella to fashionable homes of prosperous artists in Nordic countries, we fill a lot of cupboards, dressers, sideboards and others.
Laomedon refuses to pay the gods for helping built the walls of the first city of Troy. The Peleus marries Thetis, with a feast of the gods that sets up the Judgement of Paris.
By William Blake, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Edward Burne-Jones and others, Edward Stott, Albin Egger-Lienz, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Kazimierz Sichulski.
Pygmalion carves an ivory statue of the perfect woman, and prays to Venus for a bride in its likeness. When he showers the statue with his kisses, it turns into the woman he wanted.
Pitched battles at the weddings of Hippodame and Pirithous, and Andromeda and Perseus. The Trojan War resulting from the wedding of Thetis and Peleus, and turning water into wine with Veronese.
Myths of Perseus and Atlas, Philemon and Baucis, and the peasants of Lycia teach the ancient code of hospitality to strangers.
First Slade Professor, Principal of what became the Royal College of Art, Director of the National Gallery, and President of the Royal Academy, yet now forgotten.
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