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Trojan Epics: 16 Sirens and Calypso

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Odysseus is lashed to the mast as his ship passes the Sirens without being lured away. He’s the only survivor after shipwreck, then is trapped with Calypso for seven years.

June 12, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Dressed for the beach 1892-1922

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In the early 20th century, some bathers opted for trunks, a few still bathed naked in seclusion, and modern clothes broke out on occasion.

June 11, 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

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 4 The offence of Sardanapalus

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For his third Salon in 1827, he submitted one huge work developed from Lord Byron’s account of the death of Sardanapalus.

June 9, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 8 The illusion of depth

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More important than perspective projection are cues including depth order, relative size, height in the picture plane, and aerial perspective.

June 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 59 Aegis

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An attribute of the goddess Athena (Minerva), it consists of the image of the face of Medusa on a shield or breastplate.

June 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Painters: Mykhailo Boichuk

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Leader of a school that flourished in Ukraine from 1910 until it fell victim to Stalin’s Great Purge in 1937. Most of his visual art was destroyed.

June 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 15 Escape from Circe

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She invited Odysseus and his crew to a feast, where she turned most of them into pigs. Odysseus avoids that fate, and later gets a prophecy from Tiresias.

June 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the most famous piazza in the world: 1880-1908

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From Renoir in 1881 through multiple Impressonists to Monet in 1908, more views of Piazza San Marco in Venice.

June 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the most famous piazza in the world: to 1840

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From Bellini in 1496, through Canaletto, to JMW Turner in 1840, views of Piazza San Marco in Venice.

June 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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