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Burne-Jones

Here be Orcs and Sea Monsters in paintings

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Scenes from Perseus and Andromeda, and Orlando Furioso, by Veronese, Moreau, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

August 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: Graiai and Gorgons

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Sisters at the heart of the myth of Perseus, Medusa and Andromeda. In painting by Burne-Jones, Caravaggio, Malczewski, Klimt and others.

July 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Eris (discord)

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She provided the prize of a golden apple for the beauty contest between Hera, Minerva and Aphrodite, which led to the Trojan War.

May 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Prime Minister’s Music Room, Perseus and Andromeda

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The story behind the commissioning of Edward Burne-Jones to paint his monumental series telling the story of Perseus and Andromeda.

May 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: the Hesperides

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Three to seven sisters who guard Hera’s golden apples in a land ‘to the west’, painted by Burne-Jones, Leighton, Turner, Sargent, and more.

May 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: The Fates

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Epitomising human attitudes to life and death for millennia, they spin the thread of life, measure the length allotted to each person, and cut that length with shears.

April 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Wedding Paintings 1: Classics

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The first caused war between centaurs and humans, in the second many were turned into stone, and the third caused the Trojan War

April 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A Blossom Festival in paintings 1

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Reduced to viewing the blossom online? Here are wonderful paintings of tree blossom from Millais, Sisley, van Gogh and others.

March 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The horse with wings: 1 Pegasus

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From Mantegna and dancing Muses, through Rubens and Rochegrosse with the legend of Perseus, to a portrait by Odilon Redon.

March 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Myrrh in paintings: 2 Adoration and penitence

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Myrrh makes its appearance as one of the 3 gifts of the Magi, then as an attribute of Mary Magdalene. A history in paintings by Bosch and others.

December 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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