Great paintings of the masters telling Virgil’s epic of the life of Aeneas. From his conception and the fall of Troy, to his time with Dido in Carthage.
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Increasingly popular during the 19th century, stories of people going from rags to riches have seldom appeared in paintings. Here are Cinderella and Robin Hood, and an explanation.
Includes a chronological list of all his paintings shown in the series, together with links to each of the articles, and some of his self-portraits.
Four days of relaxation before Don Quixote drags Sancho Panza back out onto the road, where they witness a fencing duel.
An overview of his major paintings from La Gloria in 1772 to experimental miniatures on ivory flakes in 1825.
Two young men cast adrift on the River Seine, a king having his hair cut, and one of the finest and most haunting paintings of Psyche.
The pair meet a hidalgo, then a cart loaded with two lions. Despite protests from everyone, Don Quixote insists on facing the lions to show what sort of a man he is.
How well do paintings of the stories of Perseus and Theseus fit Booker’s Seven Basic Plots? As he gives these as examples of Overcoming the Monster, do his stages work?
In the last four years of his life, he concentrated on drawing and printmaking. These paintings were Goya’s farewell.
He started painting popular equestrian scenes and social realist works, but after the Franco-Prussian War turned increasingly to old French history.
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