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Metamorphoses

Infanticide: Astyanax and making of myth

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Exploring different verbal and visual accounts of the story of the murder of Astyanax during the fall of Troy.

February 5, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 2 – Deucalion, the flood, and Python

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The Greek version of the Flood myth is quite different, and calls on sculpture for another metamorphosis. It also gives rise to the fearsome Python.

February 3, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 1 – Lycaon, cannibalism, and werewolves

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Did Jupiter destroy cannibalistic practices, or did a cult of his originate them? Dark doings in this tale of lycanthropy.

January 30, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Fire, surgery, and surrogate pregnancy: an unpaintable story?

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Not an easy story to paint, Ovid’s clear account has been largely ignored. Because it is now too absurd to show?

January 28, 2017 General, Painting

Hesiod’s Brush, the paintings of Gustave Moreau: 13 Jupiter and Semele

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His last masterpiece has some of the richest symbols, icons, and decoration of all his works. A detailed look at his finale.

January 27, 2017 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Poussin’s Empire of Flora

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More myths in a single painting than you’ll see anywhere else. But do they come together to form another narrative?

April 25, 2016 General, Painting

Favourite Paintings 18: Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (Spring), c 1482

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One of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance, and one of the later huge works in egg tempera, its interpretation remains controversial.

April 10, 2015 Painting

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