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Ovid

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Pyramus and Thisbe

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The model for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this couple committed suicide when each presumed they had brought the death of the other.

May 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Hero and Leander

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Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero.

May 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Celebrating the tercentenary of Johann Heinrich Tischbein, painter of Hermann the German

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A senior in three generations of German painters, who is notable for his paintings of the victorious Arminius, or ‘Hermann the German’.

October 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Complete Angler in paintings 1

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Fishing with rod and line plays a significant part in the myth of Daedalus, and adds calm and timelessness to many landscapes.

February 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Ribbit: Frogs and toads in paintings, 1 Lycians

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Paintings of this popular story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by Tintoretto, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and the unknown Gabriel Guay.

May 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Looking for a long read and fine art? Eight classic books with paintings

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From Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Goethe’s Faust, here are eight classic works of literature accompanied by superb paintings and illustrations. All free.

April 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Gustave Moreau and Symbolism: Jupiter and Semele

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Moreau defined painting as “this language of symbol, myth and sign”, and this is his greatest expression of that.

March 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Myrrh in paintings: 1 Adonis born from a tree

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We give presents at Christmas after the 3 kings. So what is myrrh, and what are its origins in paintings? A grim story of incest, deceit and metamorphosis.

December 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 7 Late Portraits and Myths

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After painting portraits of the Pope during his second visit to Italy, he returns to paint the king’s niece and new bride, Las Meninas, and his last myth.

March 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Women in the Life of Jules Joseph LeFebvre 1

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With the exception of his early history paintings and a few portraits of men, his entire career was devoted to painting beautiful women.

February 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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