Rich in wordplay, this story is almost unique to Ovid. It was oddly prescient of his own later banishment too.
Velázquez
Marie’s plan to bring peace to Europe is implemented in double royal weddings. The paintings say it brought a new age to France, but history says otherwise.
An introduction to some of the history and panegyric behind Rubens’ Marie de’ Medici Cycle, in the Louvre.
When you’re a great narrative painter and a diplomat, one painting might be all that is needed to secure a peace treaty.
Trying to elicit a specific taste seem over-ambitious, but why can’t great paintings at least make us feel peckish?
A triple bill of myths, ingeniously interwoven into a story with four different metamorphoses – and some superb paintings.
Introduction to a series explaining the history of oil paint, effects on techniques, hence on paintings themselves.
There have been four different readings of this well-known painting. Does any of them work, or should we look to a different account?
It is hard to be sure when oil painting outdoors first started, but the oldest such paintings date from before 1700.
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