How the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, heroic commander of the Greeks in the Trojan War, came to murder his mother and her lover, after they killed his father.
West
Born in Springfield, PA, he left the US for Rome in 1760, settled in London in 1763, and never returned to America. Appointed royal historical painter to King George III, and buried in St Paul’s Cathedral.
Paintings by Bosch, Giorgione, Velázquez, Jordaens, Benjamin West, Joseph Wright, Ingres, Ecksersberg, Ary Scheffer and others.
From yachting in Cowes, moving east along the Channel coast to end at the extreme eastern tip of Kent, with paintings from William Dyce, Walter Sickert, Paul Nash, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith and others.
With Achilles refusing to take any part in the war against Troy, defeat is looming for the Greeks. His close friend Patroclus drives the Trojans back, but is killed by Hector. Achilles is thrown into deep grief.
Paintings by West, Linnell, De Nittis, Fanner, Maitland, Manet, Menzel, Prendergast and Pissarro, of London’s Royal Parks, and the Tuileries in Paris.
Leader’s Worcester, Constable’s several paintings of Salisbury, Canaletto’s Saint Paul’s in London, a Thanksgiving at St Paul’s, Bastien-Lepage and Le Sidaner.
Cimon is a problem child until he sees Iphigenia. He reforms, but her parents refuse his proposal. When he abducts her as she is being taken to be married off, everything goes wrong.
Worn by Mars, Athena/Minerva and Bellona, it also featured in the war against Troy. It was worn by Joan of Arc, and by Lovis Corinth too.
Our ancestors went to the beach and swam there for health. They soon wrapped themselves up in clothing, though, and only in late 19th century dared to dress for the beach.
