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Trojan Epics: 3 Helen and her abduction

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Zeus, disguised as a gander, raped Nemesis, who laid Helen as an egg. She became step-sister of Castor and Polydeuces, and went on to be abducted by Paris as Aphrodite’s bribe.

March 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Egypt 1: History

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A little of the history of Egypt, from Books of the Dead in 1300 BCE, up to Napoleon’s campaign there between 1798-1801.

December 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 6 Adolphe-Félix Cals

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One of the five ‘fathers’ of Impressionist, his style became painterly in the 1860s and he exhibited at the Salon until 1870 and in four Impressionist Exhibitions.

August 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Nils Jakob Blommér: 2 Landscapes

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Born in southern Sweden, he won medals at the Royal Swedish Academy, and funds to travel to Europe. He ended up in Rome, where he married.

March 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A life of Theseus in paintings: 3 Fights and failed relationships

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A banquet with a river god, a pitched battle at his friend’s wedding which turned into a full-scale war, a relationship involving incest, suicide and violent death, and the abduction of Helen – quite the career of a Greek hero.

October 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Crème de la Crème: Winners of the Prix de Rome for painting 2

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The Prix de Rome changed in the 19th century. Its subjects became more obscure, and its successes few and far between.

July 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Women in the Life of Jules Joseph LeFebvre 1

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With the exception of his early history paintings and a few portraits of men, his entire career was devoted to painting beautiful women.

February 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Teacher of John Singer Sargent, Edvard Munch, and more: Léon Bonnat

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The teacher of Caillebotte, Eakins, Munch, John Singer Sargent, Toulouse-Lautrec and many other artists. But almost forgotten himself.

January 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Legends of England in Paint: Robin Hood

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The first of two looking at the telling of English legends in paintings: Robin Hood and his ‘Merry Men’, popular for the last 500 years.

September 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 1a Theseus, from the flight to Naxos

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After abandoning Ariadne on Naxos, he takes a succession of brides, battles with the Amazons, and fights for the Lapiths against the centaurs. But did he rape Helen? Paintings by Corinth, Waterhouse, Rubens, and more.

May 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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