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God of the Week: Asclepius (Aesculapius)

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God of medicine and the healing arts, he has several unusual myths and features, including a strange relationship with a snake when he was a child.

January 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: The Charites or Graces

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Aglaea (representing splendor), Euphrosyne (mirth), and Thalia (good cheer), who together represent the better aspects of human nature, bit got Burne-Jones into trouble.

January 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Psyche

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Absent from Classical art, she first appears in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’, which was written in the 2nd century. Wonderful paintings, particularly from women artists, of this novel.

November 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Evelyn De Morgan 2: The Cadence of Autumn

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Paintings from 1885 onwards, looking at women from Ovid’s ‘Heroides’, his ‘Metamorphoses’, women of Troy, and this unusual time series across the canvas.

October 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Evelyn De Morgan 1: Night and Sleep

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One of the most prolific and accomplished narrative painters, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe and North America.

October 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Delightfully Deadly: Sirens in paintings

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Bad girls whose beautiful voices lured sailors to their deaths, so that the women could eat them. Paintings by Etty, Moreau, Waterhouse, Rae, Nash and others.

January 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Soul in Flight: paintings of butterflies after 1860

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From Gustave DorĂ© and Winslow Homer, to Vincent van Gogh and Odilon Redon – modern paintings of butterflies.

August 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Caves 2: Views, Birth, and Fantasy

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Hosting Lord Byron’s Alpine Witch, as the birth canal for Thomas Cole’s ‘Voyage of Life’, and an attempt by Courbet to return to the womb? The versatility of caves.

July 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 16 Varnish

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Until 1880, varnishing oil paintings was standard practice, but three completely different types of varnish were used. A journey through names like sandarac and colophony.

July 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

River Gods and Nymphs

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A common convention in paintings of classical myth, the river god was a bearded old man with a put pouring forth water, often seen with a Naiad, his daughter.

October 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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