Dose of Art #73: José de Ribera – Ixion (1632)
Ixion was a king of the Lapiths who murdered his father-in-law by pushing him into a bed of burning coals […]
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Dose of Art #60: Francisco Goya – Saturn Devouring His Son (c. 1819-1823)
This painting was originally a mural on the wall of Goya’s house Quinta del Sordo near Madrid. Around 1874 (almost […]
Dose of Art #43: Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pygmalion and Galatea (1890)
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who was not interested in real women, as he was “shocked at […]
Dose of Art #31: Joachim Wtewael – Perseus and Andromeda (1611)
After her mother claimed Andromeda was more beautiful than the daughters of the sea god Nereus, Poseidon did send the […]