Matters Arising

Book VI of the Metamorphoses opens with the story of Arachne . (picture from wikicommons by galak76, used by permission under creative comm...

The next story in the Metamorphoses is that of Lyncus’s treacherous attempt to murder his guest, Triptolemus, for which he was turned into ...

The next story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses is that of Arethusa , a nymph who was turned into a spring by the goddess Diana to protect her from ...

Having looked at Persephone in the 16th and 17th centuries, we now turn to 18th and 19th centuries. Our first picture, Psyche Obtaining...

In my last post we looked at the story of Persephone in the 16th century, when the rape (i.e., kidnapping) of Persephone was a popular them...

Next in Ovid's Metamorphoses is the story of Proserpine , or as she is better known under her Greek name, Persephone. Paintings of Pers...

Ovid starts Book V of the Metamorphoses by continuing the story of Perseus. Phineus, who had been betrothed to Andromeda, starts a fight a...

Last time we looked at Perseus and Medusa in the 16th and 17th centuries . I haven't found anything in the 18th century, so moving on to...

After Perseus defeats the sea monster and rescues Andromeda, the Ethiopians hold a feast in his honour and he tells the story of how he defe...

We conclude our look at interpretations of the story of Perseus and Andromeda with a couple of examples from the 20th century. Odilon Redon...

We turn now to the 19th century in our exploration of the story of Perseus and Andromeda . Ingres's painting shown above was painted ar...

We continue our exploration of the theme of Perseus and Andromeda , moving into the 18th century with a picture painted in 1723 by François ...

In the early 1600s Carlo Saraceni, inspired by Giorgio Vasari's Perseus and Andromeda, which we looked at in my previous post , produced...