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Trojan Epics: 3 Helen and her abduction

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Zeus, disguised as a gander, raped Nemesis, who laid Helen as an egg. She became step-sister of Castor and Polydeuces, and went on to be abducted by Paris as Aphrodite’s bribe.

March 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 18: Towards a history

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A summary history from 1700 to the 20th century, with examples of major paintings, and links to each of the detailed articles in this series.

January 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 10 Gaze, looking away

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Ignored bodies, a complex chain from the head of John the Baptist, and Velazquez’s royal portrait which omits the King and Queen,

November 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 8: Shakespeare

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For 20 years, Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery tried to establish an English School of History Painting. Or was it just a ploy to make money from prints?

October 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 7: Benjamin West’s revolution fails

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How West failed in his aim of bringing a revolution to history painting by depicting ‘modern history’, and was repeatedly upstaged by others.

October 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 6: Benjamin West and Modern Histories

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His early ambition was to be a history painter. After studying in Rome, when he was on his way back to the US, he stopped off in London. For nearly sixty years.

October 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Portrait of the artist’s wife 1

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From Rubens’ double-portrait with Isabella Brant, and Rembrandt’s with Saskia, to Paul Signac’s wife with a parasol and Ferdinand Hodler’s wife Berthe Jacques.

October 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 14: Hamlet 1

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An outline of the plot of Shakespeare’s greatest play, together with a selection of paintings, excluding those of the death of Ophelia.

September 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 1: Introduction

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Suppressed by the Reformation, narrative painting didn’t really get going in Britain until the early 18th century, but made up for lost time.

August 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 6: King Lear 2

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As the tragedy moves relentlessly to the deaths of most of its characters, paintings by William Blake, Ford Madox Brown, and Benjamin West tells its story.

July 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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