His narrative series continued in London, with veteran’s stories, a social gaffe, a modernised version of the prodigal son, and the modern woman in Paris.
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From 1859, he established himself as a detailed realist, and painted scenes from Goethe’s Faust. They were followed by the return of the prodigal sone and more.
Juana the Mad, who refused to let her husband be buried, resurrection of the drowned, funerals in the Carpathians, and fear of being buried alive.
Juno won’t let the labour of Hercules’ mother progress, so one of maids tricks Lucina into allowing the infant’s delivery, for which the maid is turned into a weasel.
A prolific painter of everything from landscapes to mythology, he trained in Karlsruhe, travelled widely, but struggled to establish his art in the years to 1885.
Human in their upper body, and fish from the waist down, these aren’t sirens at all, but have their own mythology in many traditions.
When the centaur Nessus tried to abduct Hercules’ wife, he was impaled by an arrow. He set up the later death of the hero, who was destroyed by poison in his own arrow.
Paintings continue with three sketches by Honoré Daumier, and set pieces by Hispaleto, telling the misadventures of Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
Enormously popular across Europe, Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ led to some fine narrative paintings, but why so few even in the 19th century?
Pitched battles at the weddings of Hippodame and Pirithous, and Andromeda and Perseus. The Trojan War resulting from the wedding of Thetis and Peleus, and turning water into wine with Veronese.
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