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Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 19 – Cadmus and Harmonia

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The short conclusion to the house of Cadmus is touching, doubly transformative, and painted by a single artist.

May 11, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Sorcery Seldom Succeeds: Painting Medea

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Princess, sorceress, seductress, wife, mother, and vengeful filicide – one of the most complex characters to paint. Known from her letter in Heroides, and a lost work by Ovid.

May 7, 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

A Troubled Woman, Centaur’s Blood, and Hercules as Martyr

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A puzzling painting of a lone woman, wrestling with inner turmoil; a trap laid by a dying Centaur; a king with a thing for Hercules, and his promotion to being a saint.

April 2, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope: a different Pre-Raphaelite

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His early paintings were narrative and highly original. From the 1870s they changed, becoming more Aesthetic.

October 18, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Evelyn De Morgan 2, 1881 on

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Unconventional treatments of popular stories, spiritual pain during the First World War, a touch of Blake, and woman murdering woman. Powerful paintings.

June 29, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Evelyn De Morgan 1, to 1880

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A brilliant woman painter, spiritualist, pacifist, and feminist, this tells of her remarkable life, art, and narrative.

June 28, 2016 General, Painting

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