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Painted cupids for Valentine’s Day

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How we got from one of the most senior gods, and a winged young man, to a chubby infant armed with a bow and arrow, let alone an unknown former saint.

February 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 5 Voyage and Return, Orpheus and Eurydice

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The fourth ‘basic plot’ is the story of voyage and return, for which we turn to Ovid’s account of this couple, and a dozen superb paintings. But does the model fit?

November 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Chloris (Flora), Spring

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One of the most frequently painted of the classical deities, this is out of all proportion to her tiny role in the pantheon. From Ricci to Waterhouse.

February 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Evelyn De Morgan 2: The Cadence of Autumn

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Paintings from 1885 onwards, looking at women from Ovid’s ‘Heroides’, his ‘Metamorphoses’, women of Troy, and this unusual time series across the canvas.

October 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Evelyn De Morgan 1: Night and Sleep

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One of the most prolific and accomplished narrative painters, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe and North America.

October 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paradise Lost: Summary and Contents

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Milton’s own book-by-book summary with a selection of the finest paintings and illustrations, and links to individual articles.

August 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paradise Lost: Book 9 in paintings and illustrations

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The climax: Satan enters the serpent, and tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Adam and Eve are undone.

July 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Eros (Cupid)

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Was a primordial deity, attendant at Aphrodite’s birth, or her son by Ares/Mars? When did he get his bow and arrows? Answered in fine paintings.

July 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Asleep in the painting 2: Fatigue

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More slumbering people painted by Courbet, Doré, Walter Crane, and major painters of the 19th century.

June 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

King Arthur’s women: 1 Morgan le Fay

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The Circe of Arthurian legend, for much of the time she battles with King Arthur. But when he is mortally wounded in battle, they are reconciled. Stories in paintings.

May 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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