Matters Arising

In my last series of posts based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, we looked at pictures of Danae. Let's turn our attention now to her son, ...

The BBC alerts us to a legal spat between Wikimedia (the owner of Wikipedia and Wikicommons ) and London's National Portrait Gallery ...

to two new followers: Julie Delvaux of Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia and Mariana Pinheiro of Gatochy's Blog .

The emperor Tiberius left Rome in 26 AD never to return. For most of the rest of his life he stayed on the island of Capri, where he had 12 ...

Today is Matters Arising's first birthday. The first post in this blog was a year ago today. And my next post will be my 100th. Thank yo...

Axel Munthe's The Story of San Michele is briefly mentioned in the introduction to Allan Massie's "Tiberius: The Memoirs of th...

Caroline Lawrence of the Roman Mysteries blog and associated novels draws our attention to the Royal Academy's J. W. Waterhouse exhib...

This picture by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was painted in 1867 and is now in a private collection. It illustrates the story in Livy which led ...

These two pictures from the 19th century do not show the naked Danae and shower of gold we have seen in the 16th , 17th , and 18th centurie...

As we move on from the 16th and 17th centuries, our first painting of Danae is by Antonio Bellucci. It was painted from 1700-1705 and is n...