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Characters in Painted Stories: 11 The moment of change

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Do Booker’s Seven Basic Plots reduce to a series of events leading to a change in fortune (reversal, peripeteia), and establishing the outcome?

December 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 4 The Quest

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How paintings of the Aeneid, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and Homer’s Odyssey match up with the basic plot of The Quest.

November 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Jason and the Golden Fleece 1

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Jason promises to marry King Aeëtes’ daughter, the sorceress Medea, in return for her help accomplishing his three tasks to take possession of the Golden Fleece.

October 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Likeness of Truth 1

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From Apelles, in around 330 BCE, the personification of Truth has had particular importance to painters, in the faithfulness and accuracy of their work. Here she is.

June 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: The end of the Renaissance

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From about 1530, painting started to change. Brushstrokes became visible, anatomy exaggerated, composition less balanced and ideal. First Mannerism, then came the Baroque.

May 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: The rise of narrative painting

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In Florence, stories told in paintings became increasingly secular, and ingeniously integrated multiple scenes from the single story into one painting.

April 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Legendary Lands 1

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With Umberto Eco as our guide, explore Parnassus, the Garden of Earthly Delights, Alcina’s island, Colchis, and the Garden of the Hesperides.

November 7, 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

A History of Rome in Paintings: 3 Foundation

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Romulus as founder of Rome, including the Rape of the Sabine Women and paintings by Rubens, Poussin, Ingres, David and others.

August 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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