We now associate Valkyries with Wagner and the Vietnam War. They actually come from Norse myth, which Arbo specialised in.
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Several have had a go at telling this story – Titian, Kauffman, Ricci, Delacroix, and Denis. Do their paintings work, though?
A Richard Strauss opera, a classical Greek myth, and a painting. Do they tell the same story, and how?
Did this masterpiece of Neo-Impressionism use an old technique from the early Renaissance?
I have several times written that early western painting, until the late Renaissance, not uncommonly incorporated multiple copies […]
An unusually moral story of the classical gods; superb paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Elsheimer, and others.
Looking at the stories shown in the main paintings of the Brancacci Chapel, Florence.
More myths in a single painting than you’ll see anywhere else. But do they come together to form another narrative?
The complete narrative shown in ten paintings. Or did he miss the whole purpose of the story after all?
Byrne-Jones tried to tell the complex story of Perseus and Andromeda in a series of 10 paintings. Here is the story and background.
