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Reading visual art: 42 Words in the story

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Inscriptions in paintings that reveal the story, or quote from its literary source, from Rembrandt to the Pre-Raphaelites.

March 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 2 Paris and his Judgement

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Paris, Prince of Troy, is the perfect pawn in Zeus’s plan for war. He develops a taste for beautiful women, then accepts Aphrodite’s bribe in the beauty contest of the three goddesses.

March 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Mnemosyne (memory)

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Daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and mother of the nine Muses, she has seldom been painted on her own, except by Rossetti.

June 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Orlando Furioso: Introduction

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Under the patronage of the d’Estes, Ariosto drew on Carolingian and Arthurian legend, and classical myths, to create his epic. With superb paintings to accompany.

October 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Words in Paintings 1: Part of the story

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Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast, Tintoretto, William Blake, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s painting of Sappho each rely on words.

July 27, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Mother of the Muses: Mnemosyne

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She gets but a single line in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and has been painted only rarely, and then usually in a supporting role.

April 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

President’s Park, the Titanic, and a Name on a Tree: The story of Oenone

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How many in the White House know the story of the memorial fountain just opposite – of Butt and Millet, Tennyson, and Oenone?

March 12, 2017 General, Life, Painting
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