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Burne-Jones

God of the Week: A guide and contents

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From Aesculapius to Zeus, key features of each of the major male deities in classical myths, and links to individual articles here.

March 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Thetis, Achilles’ mother

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Known from her wedding, which led to the Trojan War, and for being the mother of the Greek warrior Achilles, she is well-known in paintings.

March 8, 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

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Muses and Models 2

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The daughter of a Jamaican slave, William Morris’s wife, three Greek cousins known as the Three Graces – all muses and models for Pre-Raphaelites.

November 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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

The Faerie Queene 13: Rescuing Amoret

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Britomart meets Sir Scudamore, whose lady Amoret has been abducted by the sorcerer Busirane, and is being tortured by him. Britomart to the rescue.

November 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting sculpture: 2 Pygmalion and Gérôme

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The king of Cyprus whose ivory sculpture turned into his future wife, painted by Regnault and Burne-Jones, and Gérôme’s fascinating paintings of his painted figures. And turning painting into sculpture.

October 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Annie Louisa Swynnerton: The Sense of Sight

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The inscription on her gravestone reads “I have known love and the light of the sun.” Both shine through in ‘The Sense of Sight’.

October 8, 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

Gods of the Week: Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus

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Atlas, who bears the heavens on his shoulders. Prometheus, who deceived Zeus and was bound by chains as punishment, an eagle eating his liver each day. Epimetheus, who married Pandora.

September 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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