Never mock Cupid. As Apollo found it, he’ll get his own back in the cruellest of ways.
Poussin
This completes the 18 oil paintings. The series continues with another 16 charcoal drawings.
Two triple portraits of ladies of the nobility, which alluded to two quite racy paintings of drunken feasts, and a goddess with 8 breasts. What is going on?
A major influence in Italian art in the 1800s, he was highly skilled in telling stories, and solved problems which had troubled the Masters before.
A simple story with an obvious climax to be shown. But getting the composition right proves a test even for the Masters.
Telling the complex story of how manna saved the Israelites, and starring the master of narrative painting, Poussin.
Despite difficulties over attribution and other mysteries, he was key to the development of the Venetian style.
More myths in a single painting than you’ll see anywhere else. But do they come together to form another narrative?
Language has rich and precise mechanisms for dealing with time. Narrative painting is not without its tools, though.
A contemporary and friend of Turner, Etty, Cole, and Allston, his narrative paintings are very different.
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