From Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Goethe’s Faust, here are eight classic works of literature accompanied by superb paintings and illustrations. All free.
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Orlando discovers that Angelica has already married, and goes mad. Paintings by Delacroix, Böcklin, frescoes and Doré’s prints.
Summary of the plot in the first half of Ariosto’s epic, with links to detailed accounts, and paintings by Delacroix, Rubens, Böcklin, Ingres and others.
Some personal, even intimate wedding paintings, from Rubens, Hans Gude, William Frith, and two Naturalists. And they all lived happily ever after.
The Marriage Feast at Cana, and works by Botticelli, von Carolsfeld, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti featuring wedding feasts.
The first caused war between centaurs and humans, in the second many were turned into stone, and the third caused the Trojan War
Thirteen paintings tracing The Creation of the World, made in 1905-06 by this Lithuanian composer and painter.
A musical prodigy, he was synaesthetic, and studied painting after he had trained in music. A true Symbolist.
Rarely painted, particularly in classical form, until the 19th century, the Grim Reaper is based on Father Time, not Thanatos.
Leon takes Ruggiero back to Paris and confesses his deception to Charlemagne. At Bradamante and Ruggiero’s wedding banquet a black knight shows up, bringing more trouble.
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