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God of the Week: Asclepius (Aesculapius)

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God of medicine and the healing arts, he has several unusual myths and features, including a strange relationship with a snake when he was a child.

January 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 22 The Colosseum

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Finance by the spoils of the Temple of Jerusalem, a place of suffering and death, and for oppression of Christians. Success out of excess.

January 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: The Charites or Graces

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Aglaea (representing splendor), Euphrosyne (mirth), and Thalia (good cheer), who together represent the better aspects of human nature, bit got Burne-Jones into trouble.

January 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 21 The Forum

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Originally a marsh just outside the city’s walls, it came to be the heart of the city, a market, meeting place, and the political hub.

January 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Janus

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The god of transitions, gates and doorways, who may have lent his name to the month of January. Paintings by Rubens, Poussin and Mengs.

January 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: Horai (Horae), the Seasons or Hours

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They range in number from 3 to more than a dozen, have various names and roles, but in paintings are most commonly followers of the sun chariot.

December 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 20 The Capitoline Hill and Tarpeian Rock

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Key parts of the background of paintings of the story of the rape of the Sabine Women, this hill was originally a fortress, then the major temple to Jupiter.

December 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Hebe

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Goddess of youth, and cupbearer to the Olympian deities, she was a popular guise for portraits, and shown in a few mythological paintings.

December 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 19 More martyrs

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A saint banished to the island of Patmos, a history wound around a column, and a megalomaniac emperor strangled in his bath by a professional wrestler.

December 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Nymph and mortal of the week: Echo and Narcissus

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A nymph cursed by Hera to repeat the words just spoken to her, and a youth who falls in love with his own image. Together the result in some of the finest narrative paintings.

December 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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