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Reading visual art: 25 Dreams classical

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From the Renaissance, by convention dreams were shown as a dream view set within a framing real view. Examples by Raphael, Tintoretto and others.

January 12, 2023 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

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

Goddess of the Week: Hemera (Dies), the Day

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Seldom painted, except in Bouguereau’s pair of paintings showing her mother Nyx and Hemera.

February 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 1 Trojan Origins

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Who were the Romans, who built their city and its empire? This series looks at the history of Rome as shown in paintings, starting here with its forefather, Aeneas maybe?

August 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Wedding Paintings 1: Classics

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The first caused war between centaurs and humans, in the second many were turned into stone, and the third caused the Trojan War

April 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Nyx (Night)

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She became quite popular in 19th century paintings, in association with Morpheus and his opium poppies.

April 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Dream 1

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Painting dreams relies on a compositional convention to show both the viewer’s image of the dream, and that of the dreamer.

October 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

A Terrifying Beauty: Medusa 2

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How Perseus came to behead Medusa, and how her head restored order to the worst wedding reception ever. In paint, of course.

May 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 78 – Aeneas in Italy, and with the gods

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Aeneas reaches Latium, where he founds the precursor to Rome, Alba. Only after war with Turnus, and a series of transformations.

March 12, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

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