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Rembrandt

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 43 Philemon and Baucis, virtue rewarded

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It pays to welcome strangers, and to help them rest and recover, particularly when they turn out to be Jupiter and Mercury. A wonderful story, and 4 superb paintings.

September 20, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 24 – The rape of Proserpine

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A shocking story of the abduction of a young girl by the king of the underworld, but told with sensitivity. And accompanied by some outstanding paintings.

June 6, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

King Cyrus the Great: 1 False gods

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Even when you’re the King of Kings, being depicted in art is not easy. There’s one masterpiece by Rembrandt which is perhaps appropriate to the ruler of the greatest empire of its time.

June 3, 2017 General, Painting

Painting the Impossible: Touch

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Coming in several modalities, touch is taken for granted, and least used in the arts. Paintings of and about touch are spectacular and ingenious, but there is ample scope for more.

April 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 4 1910-1913

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Dancers, fauns, and the inevitable femmes fatales dominated his paintings before the outbreak of war.

April 10, 2017 General, Painting

Painting the Impossible: Smell

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Looking and sniffing at one of the toughest non-visual theme for paintings. Can any go beyond mere allegory and ev0ke the sensation?

March 18, 2017 General, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 9 – The abduction of Europa

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Less than 30 lines of the book are devoted to the abduction of Europa, which has become its best-known and most-often painted story.

March 10, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: How sculpture changed Ganymede’s story

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Greek painted pots, a pair of gold earrings, and a rude quiver: how they led a beer advertisement into danger.

January 21, 2017 General, Painting

Changing Times: Lovis Corinth, 1901-1904

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Berlin, the vibrant city of modern arts, brought love and marriage – and a brief reprise of Salome too.

January 10, 2017 General, Painting

Changing Times: Lovis Corinth, 1891-1897

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When he was in Munich, he did much more than just drink lots of red wine and champagne. Here are his experimental paintings from the period.

December 30, 2016 General, Painting

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