Ariadne, Bacchantes, Sappho, Queen Guinevere, Salome and Judith in ecstasy, in paintings by Lovis Corinth, David, Rossetti, Gustav Klimt and others.
Rossetti
Femme fatale, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, she was the lover of Isabella d’Este’s husband, and inspired portraits until Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1871.
Raphael’s Disputa, Joan of Arc, the coronation of Charlemagne, a knight dedicating his service in a country church, a shockingly naked St Elizabeth, and a Last Supper painted in Norway.
Curtains in Raphael’s remarkable trompe l’oeil, concealing a nude, opened by the peeping tom, revealing a lost lover, and as separator between players and spectators.
Dante and Beatrice, the Black Death that opens Boccaccio’s Decameron, the death of Brunelleschi, Botticelli in his studio, and the de’ Medicis.
Sewing for Garibaldi’s redshirts, the flag of a castle, Sir Lancelot, fishermen and sailors, Pentecost costumes, and other purposes.
Significant paintings based on The Sleeping Beauty, Mariana and Mariana in the South, and Break, Break, Break.
In their heyday, worked elaborately in gold leaf, but lost with the realism of the Renaissance. Revived by the Pre-Raphaelites, and rarely used for secular figures.
Cupid makes Pluto fall in love with Ceres’ young daughter Proserpine. When the king of Hades carries her off with him, there are consequences for the whole world.
Odysseus had been away from his home, wife Penelope and son Telemachus for over 20 years. What would she have written to him?
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