Medea tricks the daughters of King Pelias into trying to rejuvenate their father, and they end up killing him. She splits up with Jason, then murders their two sons.
Delacroix
After some history paintings, he travelled to Venice, where many of his finest paintings were made. Then he fell ill with TB and died when he was only 25.
He painted successful watercolour views of Paris before he turned 18, and went on to paint across Europe in oils and watercolours that had great influence.
Of all Ovid’s Heroines, the most successful, as she both survived and got her revenge on the treacherous Theseus.
Paintings of Istanbul and its surroundings by Gérôme, Delacroix, Richard Dadd, Ivan Aivazovsky, and Alberto Pasini up to 1877.
Some of the very few paintings that show what’s underwater, most usually a drowning woman like Shakespeare’s Ophelia.
Charon ferrying the dead to the Underworld, and rarely back again, Psyche in her quest, the centaur Nessus, and lots of sheep and cattle.
Delacroix as a pioneer of Orientalism with his paintings of Morocco, based on his visit in 1832. Then Marià Fortuny, war artist there in 1860.
Origin of the French tricolour, and Marianne, Norway making its way to independence, 4th July flag parades, and dressing overall at regattas.
Paintings by Jan van Eyck, Masaccio, Tintoretto and Delacroix with detailed explanations of their reading and background.
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