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Sheer Delight 4: Gone with the wind

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What is that princess doing dressed for a pageant, and what is happening to her swatch of carmine fabric? How billows express motion.

May 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Light-dark 2: Chiaroscuro in paintings after 1700

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Examples from Wright of Derby, Turner, Millet, van Gogh, Bonnard and others. But how many used the monochrome of scotopic vision?

April 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 13 Pseudoscience

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Physiognomy originated in ancient Greece, but was codified by Lavater in 1772; phrenology followed from 1796, and together they attracted many painters.

March 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 4 The Quest

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How paintings of the Aeneid, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and Homer’s Odyssey match up with the basic plot of The Quest.

November 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Homer’s Odyssey in paintings: 1 Polyphemus and Circe

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How Odysseus and his crew escaped the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, then became turned into pigs by the sorceress Circe.

November 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Painted Story of the Aeneid: 2 From Carthage to Apotheosis

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After Dido’s suicide, Aeneas takes a trip to the underworld, guided by the Cumaean Sibyl. He goes on to found the city of Lavinium, a precursor to Rome.

October 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A life of Theseus in paintings: 2 Killing the Minotaur

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Every 9 years, 9 of the finest young men and 9 young maidens from Athens were sent to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. Then Theseus joined them to kill the monster.

October 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

So to bed: paintings of beds 2

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The deathbed, hospital beds through the ages, and what we apparently get up to when we take a friend to bed.

May 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Thetis, Achilles’ mother

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Known from her wedding, which led to the Trojan War, and for being the mother of the Greek warrior Achilles, she is well-known in paintings.

March 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Faerie Queene: Contents and summary of books 1-3

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Una and the Redcrosse Knight, Sir Guyon or of Temperance, and Britomartis or Chastity: plot summary, main characters, and selected paintings.

February 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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