Scylla accosted by the grotesque sea-god Glaucus. When she runs away from him, he seeks the help of Circe, only for her to turn Scylla into a pack of hounds, then into a hazard to navigation.
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Gambling among soldiers and young boys, games of Pharo, l’hombre, poker, and the Casino at Monte-Carlo.
Contents with links for each article in the series, with lists of mountains and locations covered.
Burke’s sublime became attractive to some in the late 18th century. They took to the mountains, to record high peaks and narrow gorges in paintings. First of a new series.
A princess takes her handmaids to the coast to wash her fine robes and themselves. Out steps Odysseus, naked except for strategic leaves, and asks for their help.
Odysseus and his crew survive their encounter with the Sirens, but the hero has to endure 7 years with Calypso before he meets Nausicaä.
An Austrian who trained at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, joined a gold rush in Australia, then painted the continent’s landscapes.
Tracing the social history of gambling in paintings by Bosch, Caravaggio, de La Tour, Salvator Rosa, Murillo, Hogarth, and others.
Was he a monster or a god? When Glaucus rises from the surface of the sea, Scylla runs away in terror. With a superb painting by JMW Turner.
As his style became more distinctive, he painted fine religious set-pieces, and some superb and enigmatic secular works.
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