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Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 26: The Merchant of Venice

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A controversial story of a moneylender getting revenge when a borrower defaults, and demanding a pound of flesh.

November 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 23: Coriolanus

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A Roman hero, intended to be consul, is banished because he wouldn’t get on with common people. When he can defeat Rome, who can stop him?

October 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 22: Cymbeline

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An intricate tragicomedy culminating in a complex series of revelations. Although never popular, some interesting paintings.

October 24, 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

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 12: Henry VIII (All Is True)

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This play, responsible for the burning down of the Globe Theatre, tells the story of Henry’s divorce from Queen Katherine and the birth of Queen Elizabeth I.

August 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 10: Julius Caesar

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Based on Plutarch’s Lives, this play contains some of the most memorable quotations in English, and has been painted quite frequently.

August 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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

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