The Transit of Venus
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William Blake Richmond’s Venus and Anchises (1889 or 1890).
Anchises major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite (and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus). One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a Phrygian princess and seduced him for nearly two weeks of lovemaking. Anchises learned that his lover was a goddess only nine months later, when she revealed herself and presented him with the infant Aeneas. Aphrodite had warned him that if he boasted of the affair, he would be blasted by the thunderbolt of Zeus. He did and was scorched and/or crippled.
24 Saturday Jan 2015
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allegorical painting, crashing waves, dark wings, Evelyn De Morgan, Lightening, oasis of calm, painting, Rain, Spiritualism, Symbolism, Thunder, Thunderclouds
the storm spirits by Evelyn De Morgan (1900)
Evelyn De Morgan often chose to portray the elements within her work. Here, Rain, Lighting and Thunder are personified as strong, beautiful women with billowing drapery.
24 Saturday Jan 2015
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09 Sunday Nov 2014
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Priestess of Delphi
The priestess of the oracle at ancient Delphi, Greece. (1891)
John Collier (1850–1934)
In the painting, “Priestess of Delphi” by The Honorable John Collier, a priestess – the Pythia – is depicted in a trance state, seated over a fissure in the rock through which vapors rise from the underground stream. In her left hand is a sprig of laurel – in Greek mythology, Apollo’s sacred tree – and in the other hand a bowl meant to hold some of the water from the stream containing the gases.British artist and writer John Maler Collier (1850-1934) was born in London and painted in the Classicist and Pre-Raphaelite styles. He studied under Sir Edward Poynter in Paris and was influenced by the work of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Sir John Everett Millais. During his lifetime he was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) – granting him the title “Honorable” – and was one of the 24 founding members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters established in 1891.
26 Friday Sep 2014
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26 Friday Sep 2014
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creation, god, jan brueghel II, moon, painting, stars, sun, zodiac signs