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Jerusalem Delivered: 4 Clorinda saves Sophronia and Olindo

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The crusaders start their march down the Mediterranean coast towards Jerusalem. Gabriel appears to Godfrey, and a young couple are saved from being burned at the stake by a ‘pagan’ woman knight.

October 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 79 – Pomona Seduced and Anaxarete Petrified

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How Vertumnus tried to trick Pomona into loving him, then told her a threatening story. Neither worked: it was being himself that won her in the end.

March 19, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 78 – Aeneas in Italy, and with the gods

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Aeneas reaches Latium, where he founds the precursor to Rome, Alba. Only after war with Turnus, and a series of transformations.

March 12, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 73 – Dido and Aeneas, and the origin of the apes

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The story of Dido and Aeneas summarised in seven lines, and a strange account of the origin of the apes. Paintings by Guérin, Cézanne, Tiepolo, and Fuseli.

February 5, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 72 – Scylla transformed

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Glaucus’ attempt to get Circe to put a spell on Scylla, to make her love him, backfires. Wonderful paintings by Waterhouse, van der Neer, Henry Fuseli, and others.

January 29, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting
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