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Turner

High: Alpine Miscellany

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Mountain paintings by JMW Turner, John Ruskin, John Brett, and Georg Janny.

February 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Mad, bad and dangerous to know: Paintings of Medea 2

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She tricks the daughters of King Pelias to murder him, then flees to Corinth, where Jason abandons her. She murders his bride with a poisoned wedding dress, then kills her two children. After that, she tries to kill the young Theseus.

January 28, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 3 Daphne becomes the laurel

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Cupid gets revenge on Apollo by making him fall in love with Daphne, and she refusing to co-operate. The result is her being transformed into the laurel.

January 22, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Cornish Riviera Express: Paintings of the Cornish Coast 1

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The development of landscape painting of the coast of Cornwall, from the late 18th century, through the Newlyn School, to the 1890s.

January 20, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Shipwreck paintings: 1 to 1850

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From Tintoretto in the 1560s, through the canonical Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, to Delacroix’s Shipwreck of the Don Juan.

January 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: an introduction to a new series on Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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The Roman poet whose poetic account of myths found a place in almost every workshop or studio in Europe between 1500-1850.

January 5, 2024 General, Life, Painting

High: Passes

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Passes of St Gothard, Chalus in N Iran, the Pyrenees, the Vikos Gorge, the Daryal Gorge in the Caucasus, the Simplon and others.

December 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 92 Markets B

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Fish markets from Turner, Zorn, Pradilla, Sorolla, and further afield with Alberto Pasini and Théo van Rysselberghe.

November 29, 2023 General, Life, Painting

High: Waterfalls

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Waterfalls in mountains are spectacular, and difficult to access. Examples include the falls where Sherlock Holmes fought with Moriarty.

September 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Sicily as a legendary land 1

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The abduction of Proserpine, Acis and Galatea, Scylla and Glaucus, the Battle of Himera, and the funeral of Timoleon, and great Greek general.

September 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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