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Reading visual art: 57 Tridents and bidents

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Neptune’s trident has three tines, while Pluto’s is a bident with only two. Or it could be a pitchfork. How to read them in paintings.

May 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 11 Paris killed and the Trojan Horse

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Ajax goes mad, then falls on his sword. The Greeks are told they need their master-archer and Achilles’ son, but still have to come up with a way of entering the city of Troy.

May 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Pyramus and Thisbe

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The model for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this couple committed suicide when each presumed they had brought the death of the other.

May 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 5 Achilles recovered and a stinky snakebite

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Achilles had gone missing, hiding as a young woman in the royal court on Skyros, where Odysseus found him. And a master archer was bitten on the foot by a snake.

March 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 1 Zeus’s plan and a wedding feast

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Zeus comes up with a plan to reduce the number of mortals, and completes one of the first two steps, marrying Thetis to a mortal. And what a wedding feast, thanks to Eris.

February 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

February fill dyke in paintings: Other floods

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The myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and others, painted by Rubens, Poussin, John Martin, and real floods by Alfred Sisley.

February 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 29 Motion and billows

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Motion can be implied against the rules we learn about how the world works. It can also be shown in billowing garments.

January 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 23 Transformation 1

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Transformations of Chloris into Flora, Daphne into a laurel tree, and Actaeon into a stag which is promptly killed by his own hunting dogs.

January 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 11 Judgement by body language

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The popular story of the Judgement of Solomon is a great challenge for visual art. Here are some of the better attempts at solution, from Raphael to Blake.

November 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 10: JMW Turner

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One of the greatest British narrative painters of the 19th century, a small selection of his best from Eris picking a golden apple in 1806 to the slaveship of 1840.

November 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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