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Barefoot painting 2

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Bare feet as a sign of rural poverty, among irregular peasant volunteer soldiers, and striking miners. But what about the kissing of feet?

April 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The French Counter-Revolution: Painting propaganda 2

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The 1890s saw an unexpected number of paintings of this civil war. Were they Republican or Royalist statements?

March 31, 2019 Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 62 – The Greeks attack Troy

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The ‘thousand ships’ of the Greek forces are gathered at Aulis, waiting for fair winds. A sign tells them how long the war against Troy will last, but they have to do something horrific first.

December 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 16 – Venus and Mars, Leucothoe and Clytie

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Three stories in a single telling, about Helios/Sol, the personification of the Sun. His role in the adultery of Venus and Mars, and his two lovers and their bitter rivalry.

April 19, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting
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