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A History of Rome in Paintings: 14 Assassination

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Three senators conspired with thirty others to end Caesar’s passion for royal powers. One artist ignored convention and painted two superb accounts.

November 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 7 Rome saved by a mother

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After his banishment from Rome, Caius Marcius co-led the Volscians and brought them almost to the city’s gates, ready to invade. He was then sent a deputation of women.

September 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paradise Lost: Invitation to a new series

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When completely blind, likely to be arrested and sentenced to death, with the remains of the English state around him, John Milton wrote one of the greatest works in English.

May 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 6 Walpurgis Night

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Faust and Mephistopheles attend the witches’ celebrations on the Brocken peak in the Harz Mountains – a wild night, it seems.

February 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 9b Coriolanus

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Roman soldier of great valour, successful commander, but a disaster of a statesman. His story was told by Shakespeare, and in many paintings by Poussin, Kaufmann, and others.

August 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 84 – The death of Julius Caesar

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The story of the assassination of the dictator, told by William Blake, Gérôme, von Piloty, and others.

April 16, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting
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