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Reading visual art: 56 Tortoises

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Although unusual in paintings, tortoises can have several different readings, from love to slow and faltering political reforms.

May 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Abandoned

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Unfinished paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Bonington, Bazille, Bastien-Lepage, Moreau and others.

March 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 3 Helen and her abduction

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Zeus, disguised as a gander, raped Nemesis, who laid Helen as an egg. She became step-sister of Castor and Polydeuces, and went on to be abducted by Paris as Aphrodite’s bribe.

March 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 42 Words in the story

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Inscriptions in paintings that reveal the story, or quote from its literary source, from Rembrandt to the Pre-Raphaelites.

March 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 2 Paris and his Judgement

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Paris, Prince of Troy, is the perfect pawn in Zeus’s plan for war. He develops a taste for beautiful women, then accepts Aphrodite’s bribe in the beauty contest of the three goddesses.

March 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of pigs 2

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Stories of Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, the miracle of the Gadarene swine, and St Anthony. And Félicien Rops’ ‘Pornocrates’?

February 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 38 Fables in the 19th century

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Examples of painted fables from the 19th century, from Landseer, Millet, Moreau, Klimt, Morisot, Hodler, and Pierre Bonnard.

February 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: Introduction to a new painting series

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Series telling the whole Epic Cycle from Zeus’s decision to reduce the mortal population, to the death of Odysseus.

February 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 36 Modern chimeras

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Can William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Jacek Malczewski or others come any closer to the classical Chimera?

February 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 35 Chimeras and devils

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In quest of the Chimera from classical mythology in paintings of Michelangelo, Bosch, de Vos and others.

February 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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