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A life of Theseus in paintings: 3 Fights and failed relationships

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A banquet with a river god, a pitched battle at his friend’s wedding which turned into a full-scale war, a relationship involving incest, suicide and violent death, and the abduction of Helen – quite the career of a Greek hero.

October 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Thetis, Achilles’ mother

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Known from her wedding, which led to the Trojan War, and for being the mother of the Greek warrior Achilles, she is well-known in paintings.

March 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: The Muses

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Nine daughters of Mnemosyne representing each division of the classical arts. Paintings from Raphael to Moreau.

July 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Sight of Music: Concerts in paintings 1

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If composers and performers can evoke visual images in music, why can’t painters return the complement? Lavinia Fontana, Vermeer, Menzel, Corot and others try.

May 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Wedding Paintings 1: Classics

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The first caused war between centaurs and humans, in the second many were turned into stone, and the third caused the Trojan War

April 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Two Scenes in One Painting: multiplex narrative from 1600-1947, and in Asia

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Even Poussin used this narrative form. Here are other example right up to 1947, including paintings by Corot, Munch, Corinth, and others.

August 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 59 – Troy and the birth of Achilles

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The trickery involved in building the first city of Troy results in its destruction. How Achille’s parents marry, and what happens at their wedding.

November 20, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 42 The Death of Meleager, and the Feast of Achelous

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Meleager is burned to death by proxy, his sisters transformed to guinea hens. Then Achelous transforms nymphs into islands.

September 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 23 – Minerva and the Muses

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After short mentions of Pegasus making a new spring with his hoof-print, and the strange Pyreneus, the Muses tell of their contest with the daughters of Pierus, who were turned into magpies.

June 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 8 – Turned into stone, Mercury and Aglauros

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Two turned to stone: Battus for betraying Mercury, and Aglauros for obstructing Mercury’s courting of Herse, and her jealousy.

March 7, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting
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