She tricks the daughters of King Pelias to murder him, then flees to Corinth, where Jason abandons her. She murders his bride with a poisoned wedding dress, then kills her two children. After that, she tries to kill the young Theseus.
Delacroix
Declining health, tuberculosis and riding accidents, but he still painted the Epsom Derby, Mazappa, and ten portraits of those with psychiatric illness.
Huge divans, closed wooden cabinets, and iron bedsteads. In love, marriage, adultery, problem pictures, and the erotic.
A selection of his early paintings, and an account of the year he spent preparing and painting his masterwork, the Raft of the Medusa.
Jupiter wipes out unworthy humans in a flood. One pious couple survive, and go on to re-create humanity transformed from stones. This leaves the monstrous Python to be killed by Apollo.
From Delacroix’s final Shipwreck off a Coast, through Aivazovsky’s Ninth Wave, to Waterhouse’s painting of The Tempest.
From Tintoretto in the 1560s, through the canonical Raft of the Medusa by ThĂ©odore GĂ©ricault, to Delacroix’s Shipwreck of the Don Juan.
The Roman poet whose poetic account of myths found a place in almost every workshop or studio in Europe between 1500-1850.
Rubens’ hunting scenes and Delacroix, the last of his shipwrecks, Sorolla’s fishing scenes, Arthurian legend, the story of Salome, and more.
Storm in the Bay of Biscay, a deep fake of 1808, a dedication for a wedding present, the Trojan Horse, and remarkable modern narratives.
