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Goddess of the Week: Psyche

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Absent from Classical art, she first appears in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’, which was written in the 2nd century. Wonderful paintings, particularly from women artists, of this novel.

November 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 13 Hail Caesar

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Caesar and Cleopatra in Egypt, the suicide of Cato the Younger, Caesar’s triumphs, and the development of a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.

November 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Foundling: Paintings of Moses in the bulrushes

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Even the boldest of artists has avoided painting abandoned babies, except in the Biblical story of Moses. Veronese, Poussin, Sirani, Moreau and more.

December 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Out of darkness, light: The development of chiaroscuro 1

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A whirlwind trip through the history of compositional chiaroscuro, from the Renaissance, through Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi, to Rembrandt.

December 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 17a Alexander (the Great) 1

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Biography to the death of Darius the King of Persia, with superb paintings by Degas, Elisabetta Sirani, Altdorfer, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and more.

September 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 76 – Ulysses’ crew turned into pigs

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Ulysses sojourn with Circe, from the Odyssey, as an inset to Virgil’s Aeneid, as retold by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. A first-hand account of transformation.

February 26, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Lavinia Fontana: the first woman Master?

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She succeeded at the highest level in mythology, religious works, and portraiture, and paved the way for other women artists.

July 9, 2016 General, Painting

Brief Candles: Elisabetta Sirani, 2

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Her paintings became sought after, and her themes highly innovative. But a stomach ulcer brought her life to a sudden end.

July 8, 2016 General, Painting

Brief Candles: Elisabetta Sirani, 1

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A brilliant painter who brought wide tonal range and colour to Bologna, and started training many young women.

July 7, 2016 General, Painting
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