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Titian

Reading visual art: 12 Long hair and the spirit

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The stories of Samson, whose prodigious strength depended on not having his hair cut, and Mary Magdalene, who dried Christ’s feet with her hair.

November 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 4: Gone with the wind

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What is that princess doing dressed for a pageant, and what is happening to her swatch of carmine fabric? How billows express motion.

May 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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

A life of Perseus in paintings 2

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From his battle with the sea monster to the deadly fight at his wedding to Andromeda, paintings by Titian, Veronese, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

September 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Fruit of the Sea: Paintings of seashells 1

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Huge clam shells were a common feature in paintings of the birth of Venus, and other classical myths. They also feature in many ‘vanitas’ paintings.

June 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Life is Short: 2 Painters killed in pandemics

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Titian died of the plague, and Austrian artists were badly affected by the influenza pandemic of 1918, losing both Klimt and Schiele.

January 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Dionysus (Bacchus)

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From bizarre origins as his mother was consumed by fire, and he completed gestation in Zeus’ thigh, to his marriage to Ariadne on the island of Naxos.

November 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Artemis (Diana)

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A virgin goddess who is sometimes the major goddess of childbirth, or the great mother of nature. A huntress and goddess of the Moon.

October 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Here be Orcs and Sea Monsters in paintings

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Scenes from Perseus and Andromeda, and Orlando Furioso, by Veronese, Moreau, Burne-Jones, Vallotton and others.

August 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Zeus (Jupiter)

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Many myths concern his endless adulterous rapes of mortals and subsequent pregnancies, but there’s also Philemon and Baucis.

August 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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