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Dyce

Arthur: 7 Galahad and the quest

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Lancelot is tricked into getting Elaine pregnant with Galahad. When grown up, Galahad is knighted and welcomed to the Round Table in time for a vision of the Holy Grail and the start of the quest.

October 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Arthur: Introduction to a new series on paintings of Arthurian legends

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Once popular in wall paintings and miniatures across Europe, these legends were revived in the nineteenth century and adopted by the Pre-Raphaelites.

August 29, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Dressed for the beach 1600-1890

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Throughout the 19th century, as going to the beach became more popular, adults at least only bared essentials, and even covered arms and legs.

June 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 57 Tridents and bidents

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Neptune’s trident has three tines, while Pluto’s is a bident with only two. Or it could be a pitchfork. How to read them in paintings.

May 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend on the Isle of Wight in paintings 2

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Paintings by Marie Spartali Stillman, Philip Wilson Steer, Paul Helleu, and William Dyce, and photography by Julia Margaret Cameron.

May 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend on the Isle of Wight in paintings 1

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Paintings by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, William Dyce, John Brett, Whistler, Berthe Morisot and others.

May 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 55 Lions

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In the Roman arena, with a runaway slave, sparing the life of Daniel, at the feet of St Jerome and St Rufina, and snoring gently on the rug.

May 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 43 What’s wrong in that painting? 1

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A collection of paintings with strange incongruities that can make them impossible to read, from Masaccio to Gérôme.

March 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 14: British poetry and Arthurian legend

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Two new narrative themes that became distinctive in the mid-19th century were contemporary English poetry, and the legends of King Arthur.

November 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 12: William Dyce

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A painter of superbly composed and crafted religious and other narrative, a key figure in art education, who enjoyed the support of Queen Victoria.

November 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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