A triple bill of myths, ingeniously interwoven into a story with four different metamorphoses – and some superb paintings.
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Mentor to Gustave Moreau, his brief career showed his brilliance. Claimed by Ingres to be ‘the Napoleon of painting’.
When he died young, in 1891, Moreau was devastated at the loss of his friend. Here are some of his surviving history paintings.
Second and final part to commemorate his death a century ago, with several of his finest paintings.
He died a century ago, a succession of brilliant and very successful paintings behind him. First of two parts in retrospect.
Never mock Cupid. As Apollo found it, he’ll get his own back in the cruellest of ways.
In these last 2 years, his paintings reached a new peak in quantity and innovative exploration of colour and texture.
He divided his time between the bustle of Berlin and the family’s garden of Eden by the lake and mountains.
Exploring different verbal and visual accounts of the story of the murder of Astyanax during the fall of Troy.
You’d think a painting of him in battle would be ideal, not one of him being dragged from a brothel.
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