The abduction of Proserpine, Acis and Galatea, Scylla and Glaucus, the Battle of Himera, and the funeral of Timoleon, and great Greek general.
Claude
A diversion to see the Cumaean Sibyl at Lake Avernus and visit the Underworld produced some of the finest narrative landscapes.
Driven by storms to the coast of North Africa, Aeneas and Dido fall in love, but he can’t stay and must move on in search of his destiny.
Aeneas flees the burning city of Troy with his wife, father and young son. But his wife falls back and is lost. He builds ships and sails on to Delos.
The punishments of Sisyphus, the Danaïds, Ixion, Tityus, Tantalus and Ocnus told in paintings by Titian, Claude, John Singer Sargent, and others.
Paris, Prince of Troy, is the perfect pawn in Zeus’s plan for war. He develops a taste for beautiful women, then accepts Aphrodite’s bribe in the beauty contest of the three goddesses.
Starting from Egyptian blue in ancient times, pigments preferred by painters for sky blue have changed repeatedly. Here’s a brief history.
From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.
With its central role in visual art, light and its source plays a critical role in composition. It’s also one of the challenges to those painting in the studio or in front of the motif.
After Dido’s suicide, Aeneas takes a trip to the underworld, guided by the Cumaean Sibyl. He goes on to found the city of Lavinium, a precursor to Rome.
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