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Reading visual art: 16 Circe and sorceresses

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Paintings of sorceresses, who combine dark arts and seduction. Circe with Odysseus and Scylla, Melissa, Armida, Morgan le Fay and others.

December 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Orlando Furioso: Plot summary and best paintings 1

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Summary of the plot in the first half of Ariosto’s epic, with links to detailed accounts, and paintings by Delacroix, Rubens, Böcklin, Ingres and others.

April 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Orlando Furioso: Sorcery and Scotland

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Bradamante continues her quest to find and release her lover from the castle of steel. And Rinaldo ends up in Scotland, where he starts an adventure.

October 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Soul in Flight: paintings of butterflies to 1860

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From Pisanello and Dosso Dossi to William Holman Hunt and Richard Dadd: paintings showing butterflies.

August 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Sight of Sibyls 1

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From 1450-1650, paintings of ‘Christian sibyls’ who foretold the birth of Christ, became important motifs for painting. Here’s a selection.

February 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Lucrezia Borgia, femme fatale

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A powerful and well-educated woman, rumoured to have murdered one of her three husbands, painted at the time, and later by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

November 30, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 77 – Circe’s bad habit

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What happens to men who Circe desires, but refuse her? This one was turning into a woodpecker, his men into wild beasts, and his wife simply vanished into thin air.

March 5, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Fire, surgery, and surrogate pregnancy: an unpaintable story?

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Not an easy story to paint, Ovid’s clear account has been largely ignored. Because it is now too absurd to show?

January 28, 2017 General, Painting

Hieronymus Bosch: Saint Jerome at Prayer (Ghent)

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Strikingly original, its details are becoming sinister and idiosyncratic. We also discover why he signed with an owl, and called himself Bosch.

June 12, 2016 General, Painting

Visible brushstrokes: 7. Painterly marks beyond Venice

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Was painterly style a Venetian phenomenon, or was it more widespread in the early sixteenth century?

January 9, 2016 General, Painting
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