Two paintings showing Salome. In one, she dances for Herod, and asks for the head of John the Baptist. In the other, she tries to stare out the severed head.
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Adding 45 paintings to the two text narratives can be done in several ways. Once they’re linked into the scenes, they give much more insight.
When he was in Munich, he did much more than just drink lots of red wine and champagne. Here are his experimental paintings from the period.
Transforming the scene-by-scene stories into a composite version, to help the reader see their similarities and differences.
After some false starts, he finally re-established his reputation at the Salon, but was that work a political allegory?
Using Storyspace to explore, read, and visualise the different stories of Salome and John the Baptist.
A wide-ranging selection of appealing and interesting watercolours, covering most of Blake’s career and themes.
One of the greatest German painters, he covered several genres and has proved very influential. The start of a broad and more balanced view of his work.
He still couldn’t repeat his earlier success in the years running up to the Franco-Prussian War. But some paintings have been under-appreciated.
Two paintings of the buried dismemberment of a victim: one theatrical narrative, the other a serene reverie of anti-theatrical non-narrative. And an oriental witch.
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