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Trojan Epics: 3 Helen and her abduction

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Zeus, disguised as a gander, raped Nemesis, who laid Helen as an egg. She became step-sister of Castor and Polydeuces, and went on to be abducted by Paris as Aphrodite’s bribe.

March 13, 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

Sheer Delight: 0 Contents

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Full contents for this series, with lists of artists considered in each of its articles, and links to the articles.

July 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 13: A short history of clothes and fabrics in paintings

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An overview starting with the sculptural folds of the late 13th century, peaking with Raphael and Rembrandt, and dissolving with Renoir and Sargent in the early 20th century.

July 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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

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