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Goddesses of the Week: the Hesperides

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Three to seven sisters who guard Hera’s golden apples in a land ‘to the west’, painted by Burne-Jones, Leighton, Turner, Sargent, and more.

May 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

River power: Paintings of watermills 2

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More wonderful landscapes from JC Dahl, Albert Bierstadt, Samuel Palmer, Vincent van Gogh to the remote Norwegian fjords of Nikolai Astrup.

May 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the week: Thanatos (Death)

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Rarely painted, particularly in classical form, until the 19th century, the Grim Reaper is based on Father Time, not Thanatos.

April 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Nyx (Night)

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She became quite popular in 19th century paintings, in association with Morpheus and his opium poppies.

April 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings for our time: Death and the Maiden

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A relatively common motif, it started with the peculiar association of death and the erotic, then changed in the late 19th century.

January 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Floral Spring 2

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References to Botticelli’s Primavera and Poussin by Tiepolo, and in the late 19th century: Flora and the Spring.

April 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Autumn 2: 1898-1931

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Into the 20th century, with superb paintings from Hodler and William Merritt Chase, to Marsden Hartley.

October 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Face that Launched a Thousand Artists: Helen (and Paris)

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Was she abducted, seduced, or seducer? Victim or whore? Ovid’s pair of letters between Helen and Paris raises questions which many artists have tried to tackle.

March 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Lovers die swimming the Hellespont: the tragedy of Hero and Leander

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Boy meets girl but has to swim a mile in treacherous waters to keep meeting her. When she tells him how she burns with passion, he pushes his luck in the sea.

March 2, 2018 General, Life, Painting

All’s Well that Ends Well: Ariadne’s story

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She saves Theseus’ life by her ingenuity, which wins her marriage to him. But at the first opportunity he abandons her and sails away.

February 23, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

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