Bacchus granted him the boon that everything he touched turned to gold. When that proved disastrous, his power was washed away, but he then offended Apollo and was given the ears of an ass.
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Son of Pieter the Elder, brother of Pieter the Younger, and father of Jan the Younger, collaborator with Rubens and others in some of the finest paintings of the 16th-17th centuries.
Meleager is killed by his own mother in a strange way, then Ovid cuts to a feast thrown by the river god Achelous to entertain Theseus and others.
Pan pipes, in paintings by Mikhail Vrubel, Poussin, JW Waterhouse, Franz von Stuck, Titian, and others.
The wedding feasts of Peleus and Thetis, Pirithous and Hippodame, Perseus and Andromeda, and a more peaceful banquet thrown by Achelous.
How the Horn of Plenty came about, who filled it, how it often appears with the four elements, and some more complex mythological associations.
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.
Huge clam shells were a common feature in paintings of the birth of Venus, and other classical myths. They also feature in many ‘vanitas’ paintings.
After 1600, series of four paintings fell from favour, and artists, particularly the Brueghel family, combined all into single images.
Whether gentle, young and pipe-playing or hoary and older, he had the body of a man and the legs of a goat. Is he tender, or ribald?
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