After short mentions of Pegasus making a new spring with his hoof-print, and the strange Pyreneus, the Muses tell of their contest with the daughters of Pierus, who were turned into magpies.
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Two people looking at a cross in the middle of a vast canvas filled with lush plains, rising hills, and distant snow-capped peaks. How should we read them?
Definitely a wedding to remember: how Perseus and Andromeda didn’t have a photographer but a sculptor to preserve their memories.
What are accessories or ‘staffage’, what narrative, and what intrinsic to the reading and style of a landscape?
One of the finest still-life painters of any age, some of her work celebrated the sensual pleasures of food, others the futility of life.
Who is the wanderer and painter in Thomas Fearnley’s landscapes? Does he have any deeper purpose, or was he just a graphical signature?
An overview, comments on its narrative nature, and indexes to the previous articles about the Frieze.
Not just superb paintings, but one of the great visual tropes of Western art, and one of the best wedding speeches ever.
Bringing together some characteristics and features of three narrative Chinese handscroll paintings.
A landscape without human or animal figures often looks eery or unnatural. This new series looks at how figures are used in landscape paintings, with copious examples.
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