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Reading visual art: 58 Sickles

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A symbol of the harvest with Ceres, a weapon for Bacchantes, the sign of the Divine Reaper Saturn, used by Iris to cut locks of hair, and for cutting the cereal crop.

May 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Hero and Leander

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Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero.

May 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 10 The death of Achilles

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First, Achilles kills Penthesileia, an Amazon, whose great beauty fills him with remorse. Then come Memnon, who proves Achilles’ undoing by Paris’s arrow.

May 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 51 Hercules and changing gender

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The curious myth of the swashbuckling hero Hercules dressed in women’s clothing and forced to serve Queen Omphale.

April 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 45 Eyes wide open

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Surprise, suspicion, and sheer horror in these wide open eyes painted by Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Rubens, Annie Swynnerton and others.

March 30, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 5 Achilles recovered and a stinky snakebite

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Achilles had gone missing, hiding as a young woman in the royal court on Skyros, where Odysseus found him. And a master archer was bitten on the foot by a snake.

March 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Broken up

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Masaccio’s 20-panel polyptych, Bosch’s triptych, and one of the most substantial paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Even Monet’s Grainstacks series.

March 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 2 Paris and his Judgement

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Paris, Prince of Troy, is the perfect pawn in Zeus’s plan for war. He develops a taste for beautiful women, then accepts Aphrodite’s bribe in the beauty contest of the three goddesses.

March 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 1 Zeus’s plan and a wedding feast

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Zeus comes up with a plan to reduce the number of mortals, and completes one of the first two steps, marrying Thetis to a mortal. And what a wedding feast, thanks to Eris.

February 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of pigs 2

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Stories of Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, the miracle of the Gadarene swine, and St Anthony. And Félicien Rops’ ‘Pornocrates’?

February 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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