Jupiter wants Io, but after raping her turns her into a cow for safe-keeping. Juno suspects, though, and puts the cow under the watchful hundred eyes of Argus.
Millet
Companions to valkyries, accompanying the Wild Hunt, at the Crucifixion and executions, or the first sign of Spring?
From Rembrandt to the First World War, through specialists including Atkinson Grimshaw, Eugène Jansson, Schikaneder, and Le Sidaner.
Come walk in the blustery breeze of autumn/fall, with Hokusai, Clarkson Stanfield, Ford Madox Brown, Courbet, Millet, and others.
The Corydon Shepherd, those attending the Nativity, the Good Shepherd, Poussin’s flocks, Millet’s social realism, and Pissarro’s epitaphs.
A symbol of the harvest with Ceres, a weapon for Bacchantes, the sign of the Divine Reaper Saturn, used by Iris to cut locks of hair, and for cutting the cereal crop.
From Samuel Palmer in 1830, through Sisley’s Terrace at Saint-Germain, to van Gogh’s pink orchards, a festival of Spring blossom.
Examples of painted fables from the 19th century, from Landseer, Millet, Moreau, Klimt, Morisot, Hodler, and Pierre Bonnard.
Paintings of open fires and stoves from 1565 to 1884 show how we lived through the winter before central heating.
On board RMS Carpathia as it rescued survivors from the Titanic was Cooper, the skyscraper painter, already at work on his gouaches of the scene.
