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Velázquez, Ovid's Myth and the "Spinners" of Fate
Diego Velázquez, Las Hilanderas ( The Spinners ), oil on canvas, H: 220 cm (86.6 in) x W: 289 cm (113.8 in) The Prado, Madrid ( Not for beginning art student…
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Photos in the Flux of Nature
Rosamond Purcell, Field of the Cloth of Gold , 2010 A group of pictures in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s exhibition this past fall, Very Like A Whale, foo…
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Dreaming of Arcadia in the Modern World
One of the first 'pastoral ' paintings(not in the exhibition) was The Pastoral Concert, 1509, by Titian and/or Giorgione, originator of the pastoral,…
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