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Palm Sunday: Palm trees in paintings 2

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Claude Lorrain’s view of Delos, Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks, several versions of the Flight to Egypt, including one by William Blake, and more.

December 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Narrative and figurative

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Paintings from a century ago by Fortescue-Brickdale, Franz von Stuck, George Bellows, and John Godward, who committed suicide because of Picasso’s success.

December 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 18 Four Emperors in a Year

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Emperors Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and finally Vespasian before stability was restored. Painted stories of the Batavians, final minutes of Vitellius, and the destruction of Pompeii.

December 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Phaethon

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Known in one spectacular myth, in which he brings the chariot of the sun crashing down to scorch the earth. Paintings by Poussin, Tintoretto, Rubens and Moreau.

December 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 17 Murder and martyrs

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Five years into Nero’s reign as emperor, he had his mother murdered. It was all downhill from there: Rome burned, and so did many Christians.

December 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Persephone (Proserpine)

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How her abduction by Hades to the underworld brought the seasons. Paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Rossetti, and others.

November 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 16 Disaster and death

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A battle in which the Romans were overwhelmingly defeated, used later as an icon of German nationalism. And the vicious murder of the wife of the emperor Claudius.

November 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Psyche

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Absent from Classical art, she first appears in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’, which was written in the 2nd century. Wonderful paintings, particularly from women artists, of this novel.

November 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 15 Peace in the age of Augustus

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Mark Antony made a bid for power, and revealed his dark side, before defeat by Octavian. In 27 BCE, under the name Augustus, he became the first Emperor of Rome.

November 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Pan (Faunus)

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Whether gentle, young and pipe-playing or hoary and older, he had the body of a man and the legs of a goat. Is he tender, or ribald?

November 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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