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Reading visual art: 5 Evil serpents

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Snakes and serpents in myth, legend and religion are thoroughly sinister and bad, with one curious exception. A journey across centuries of images.

October 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Staffs in paintings: 1 Myth, Age, Travellers

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From mythology, Mercury’s caduceus and the Aesculapian Staff, walking sticks as a device indicating age, and those carried by travellers.

April 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Asclepius (Aesculapius)

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God of medicine and the healing arts, he has several unusual myths and features, including a strange relationship with a snake when he was a child.

January 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 83 – Augury and pestilence

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After three brief tales of strange happenings in early Rome, Ovid gives an account of the bringing of the god Aesculapius to the city, to end an epidemic.

April 10, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Aesculapius or Asclepius

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An unusual classical god in very peculiar circumstances: what took the goddess of love to the doctor?

October 24, 2016 General, Painting
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