From Dürer’s groundbreaking hare to the fable of the hare and the tortoise, a hidden hare in a well-known Turner and a white rabbit for the first of the month?
Liljefors
Paintings of the Trojan Horse by Lovis Corinth, Vuillard’s lover and her husband, sea eagles chasing an eider duck, and George Bellows’ boxing match.
Beauties by William Holman Hunt, Gustave Doré, Bruno Liljefors, Vincent van Gogh, Odilon Redon, Richard Dadd and others.
The origin of Helen, perhaps, ready to be served to Mercury and Jupiter, caged in Rome’s Capitol, or cared for young girls.
When to paint looking into the rising or setting sun, or when to put your back to the sun to show its light cast on a mountain peak.
First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable’s storms, Turner’s vortices, Boudin’s textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash’s imagination.
From Rembrandt to the First World War, through specialists including Atkinson Grimshaw, Eugène Jansson, Schikaneder, and Le Sidaner.
Although not featured in classical myths, cats have several symbolic associations and their own fables. From a kept woman to a harem, and basking in the sunshine.
Wetlands in Ukraine, Denmark, on Teufelsmoor in Lower Saxony, south of Budapest, and along the coast of Sweden with Bruno Liljefors and others.
From Troyon’s farm animals going to market, through Queen Victoria’s favourite artist, African elephants in the wild, to monkeys, and cattle in the sunshine.
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