If there’s one book every head of state and leader should read, it’s Dante’s Inferno. Introduction to a new series showing paintings of this first part of his Divine Comedy.
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Overview and full contents of all 74 articles in this series, from creation out of chaos and the flood, to the death of Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus.
His finest narrative paintings from Susanna and the Elders in 1890, through Salome and Homeric Laughter, to Ariadne on Naxos and the Trojan Horse in 1924.
Completes this unique virtual exhibition with paintings on the Calydonian Boar Hunt, Philemon and Baucis, Birth of the Milky Way, Adonis, and more.
A unique virtual exhibition of some of Rubens’ finest depictions of myths drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
From the foundation of Troy, the start of the war with the Judgement of Paris, the death of Achilles, the sack of Troy, and Aeneas journey to found the precursor to Rome, and on to the age of Augustus.
Paintings of police from lictors in ancient Rome, through ‘Peelers’ in London, to those regulating prostitution and trying to control striking workers.
In his last year of intensive painting, he concentrated on landscapes of the Walchensee, his family, and final narratives of the Trojan Horse and Balzac.
The family moved to live, as much as possible, in their chalet on the shore of Walchensee, where he painted more than 60 landscapes with new-found energy.
From patriotism and optimism, the war took Corinth into depression that was only relieved when he got out of Berlin into the countryside.
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