Giorgione’s Tempest, Cuyp’s Thunderstorm over Dordrecht, Delacroix, a prairie on fire, and viewing lightning safely indoors.
narrative
Jupiter’s bundle of thunderbolts that have survived into computer technology, lightning in great floods, in the destruction of Tyre, and the three witches in Macbeth.
The Greek fleet is stuck in the port of Aulis due to strong winds and heavy seas. A seer tells Agamemnon the only solution is to sacrifice his daughter to Diana.
By the late 19th century, presses were churning out posters promoting events and products. Some came to appear in paintings of Paris and other places.
Popularised with large-format colour printing in the middle of the 19th century, there appear in several paintings where they contribute to the reading.
How Daedalion was turned into a hawk, a wolf was turned into marble, King Ceyx and his wife became kingfishers, and Aesacus was turned into a diver.
The deaths of Demosthenes and Themistocles, Cleopatra’s experimental toxicology, and Tristan and Isolde – was it poison or a love potion?
The young Theseus is almost poisoned by Medea, Medea creates a poison potion for Jason to gain the Golden Fleece, the death of Socrates, and of Phocion.
Laomedon refuses to pay the gods for helping built the walls of the first city of Troy. The Peleus marries Thetis, with a feast of the gods that sets up the Judgement of Paris.
Featuring paintings of The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, Manfred, Sardanapalus, and two scenes from the second canto of Don Juan.
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