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Paintings of the Four Elements: 2 after 1600

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After 1600, series of four paintings fell from favour, and artists, particularly the Brueghel family, combined all into single images.

February 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Pan (Faunus)

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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?

November 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 14 Copper and other sheets

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Popular with painters during the early 1600s, copper sheets were used by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Adam Elsheimer, David Teniers the younger, William Blake, and Joseph Stella, among others.

June 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 58 – The Midas touch and ears

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Two delightful and gently humorous stories, with superb paintings by Domenichino, Poussin, de Clerck (a real jewel), and Émile Lévy.

November 17, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 42 The Death of Meleager, and the Feast of Achelous

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Meleager is burned to death by proxy, his sisters transformed to guinea hens. Then Achelous transforms nymphs into islands.

September 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting
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