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Sheer Delight 4: Gone with the wind

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What is that princess doing dressed for a pageant, and what is happening to her swatch of carmine fabric? How billows express motion.

May 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Homer’s Odyssey in paintings: 1 Polyphemus and Circe

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How Odysseus and his crew escaped the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, then became turned into pigs by the sorceress Circe.

November 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Eos (Aurora), the dawn

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Wonderful paintings by Reni, Fragonard, Evelyn De Morgan, Poussin, Rubens, and a very unusual late Fantin-Latour.

March 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Is this a racist image, or is there a more complex account?

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Isn’t that a horrific example of racism: a white man standing on the head of a Black man? Not when you read the image carefully.

July 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Face that Launched a Thousand Artists: Helen (and Paris)

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Was she abducted, seduced, or seducer? Victim or whore? Ovid’s pair of letters between Helen and Paris raises questions which many artists have tried to tackle.

March 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 75 – The Wrath of Polyphemus

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The story of Ulysses’ encounter with the Cyclops Polyphemus is told by a survivor from the Odyssey. Superb paintings by Turner, Böcklin, Reni, and others.

February 19, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Motion and photographic artefact

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What to our ancestors would have been blurred and defective images are now accepted as depicting motion. How our perception has changed, thanks to photography.

December 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 55 – Hippomenes’ race with Atalanta

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The man beats the woman quite unfairly, then on the way home they stop off to make love in a temple. Their misbehaviour is punished. More superb narrative paintings.

November 7, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 45 – How came the Horn of Plenty

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Ovid, through Achelous the river god, explains how the Horn of Plenty was wrenched from Achelous’ head in a fight with Hercules. With a gem of modern narrative painting too.

October 2, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Nessus and Deianeira, the point of view

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Some stories sound plausible, but are problematic when you try to paint or photograph them. Here’s a good example, with attempted solutions by Reni, Rubens, Moreau, and others.

December 16, 2016 General, Painting

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