Linked stories of Tiresias, the trans-gender soothsayer, Narcissus who fell in love with himself, and Echo who could only repeat what others said.
Hughes
The sun is near the horizon, but is it dawn or dusk? How to tell them apart without trusting a title that may not be the artist’s.
Cursed to be confined to weaving images on her loom and forbidden from looking directly at the outside world, she breaks that to look at Sir Lancelot.
Galahad was given a shield dating back to Joseph of Arimathea, then sorted out the Castle of Maidens, before getting his sword and scabbard on a ghost ship.
Saying it with flowers from the Pre-Raphaelites, scattering opium poppies, drowning with forget-me-nots, and choosing between camellias and violets.
Pegasus, and the confusion over whether Perseus ever rode him, a hippogriff from Orlando Furioso, and a black winged horse ridden by a valkyrie.
Inscriptions in paintings that reveal the story, or quote from its literary source, from Rembrandt to the Pre-Raphaelites.
Covering Thor, Odin, Valhalla, Valkyries, Freyja, Loki, and Baldr in paintings.
Weaving turned yarn into fabric ready to make into garments. Associations include industry, passing time, fidelity, and the myth of Arachne.
Paintings of the death of Ophelia, from the first by Delacroix in 1838 to an etching from 1889. The most popular scene which happens entirely off-stage.