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Reading visual art: 162 Tents, ancient

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Their use by armies of the distant past, in the war against Troy, the sack of Rome, the Battle of Issus, by Alexander the Great, and in Crusades.

October 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 26 Latona and the Lycian peasants

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Goddess Latona gives birth to twins Apollo and Diana, but local peasants refuse to let her drink from their lake, so they’re turned into frogs.

July 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 124 Frogs and toads in myth

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The Lycians turned into frogs when they refused the goddess Latona a drink of water, and the sorceress Medea accompanied by toads.

March 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Amazon Queens

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Hippolyta murdered for her girdle, Penthesilea killed by Achilles at Troy, Hippolyta abandoned by Theseus for Phaedra, and Thalestris impregnated by Alexander the Great.

February 12, 2023 General, Language, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 12 Colourmen and tubes

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It has been claimed that Impressionism relied on oil paint being sold in tubes. In fact that was but a part of a change from craft to technology in the artist’s studio.

March 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Still Life ++ : paintings of the artist’s studio 1

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These became popular during the 18th century, revealing models and those painting them, assistants, and many others. They also became complex allegories.

June 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Leto (Latona), mother of Apollo and Artemis

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Not well known now, she features in two myths which have been extensively painted by Tintoretto, Carracci, Brueghel, and Claude Lorrain.

August 3, 2020 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

Medium Well Done: 14 Copper and other sheets

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Popular with painters during the early 1600s, copper sheets were used by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Adam Elsheimer, David Teniers the younger, William Blake, and Joseph Stella, among others.

June 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 17a Alexander (the Great) 2

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Alexander presses on into India, but stops short of crossing the River Ganges into South-East Asia. Fine paintings by Le Brun, Gustave Moreau, Valenciennes, and others.

September 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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