Three panels, hinged together, first for an altarpiece, later for secular narratives. Examples from 1420, through those of Bosch, to the Eve of St Agnes by Arthur Hughes.
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Ulysses visits Circe’s island, where his crew are turned into swine. When she tries to do the same with him, he refuses. They marry and spend a year together.
The harrowing of Hell, and the Resurrection in the paintings of William Blake, Jan Brueghel the Elder, William Holman Hunt, and others.
From the way of the cross, ascending Calvary, to the Crucifixion, descent from the cross, pietà, and entombment.
From Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, through the Last Supper, to his trials and crowning with thorns.
A survivor from Ulysses’ crew gives a brief account of the encounter between Ulysses and the Cyclops Polyphemus, and its outcome.
More rich narratives, including Titania and Bottom, Falstaff, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Odysseus, Satan, Lady Macbeth, and Fairy Mab.
In 1781 he painted 3 masterpieces, of the suicide of Queen Dido of Carthage, ‘The Nightmare’ still famous today, and the Dream of Queen Katharine of Aragon.
His major commission of the First World War, ‘Gassed’, and final large masterpieces for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
From the marble quarry at Carrara, through Alpine passes to Lake Garda, over to alligators near Miami, and scenes from the First World War in England.
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