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Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: From Alexander the Great to Cato the Younger

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Stories of the lives of Alexander, Julius Caesar, Phocion, and Cato the Younger, with superb paintings by Gérôme, Poussin, and others. And some lessons for today.

November 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 17a Alexander (the Great) 1

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Biography to the death of Darius the King of Persia, with superb paintings by Degas, Elisabetta Sirani, Altdorfer, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and more.

September 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting

King Cyrus the Great: 2 Hell hath no fury

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Was Cyrus an evil conqueror with a lust for blood? How a legendary queen became a role model for European monarchs, with the visual support of Rubens.

June 4, 2017 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Story circles

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Bosch’s Passion Scenes is an unusual painting, combining multi-frame and multiplex narrative in the round. Is it unique?

June 17, 2016 General, Painting
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