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Ships in Distress in a Storm
Artist: Peter Monamy (English, 1681–1749)
Date: c 1720-1730
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
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Ships in Distress in a Storm
Artist: Peter Monamy (English, 1681–1749)
Date: c 1720-1730
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
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Ruined Church with Poppies, Villers-Bretonneux
Artist: Evelyn Chapman (Australian, 1888-1961)
Date: c. 1919
Medium: Oil and tempera on thick grey card
Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Fall of Phaeton
Artist: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Date: ca. 1604-1605
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States
Description
Rubens depicted a moment of high drama in this popular Greek myth that was famously recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses (c. 8 AD). Phaeton, the Sun-god Apollo's son, had begged and begged his father to allow him to drive the Chariot of the Sun across the sky. After Apollo finally conceded, his worst fears were confirmed: the rash youth had neither the strength nor the experience to control the chariot and keep it on its regular course through the heavens. The horses bolted in an erratic pattern, so that Earth either froze because the Sun Chariot was too far away, or it was scorched by the Sun's heat. At left, the Horae, butterfly-winged female figures personifying the seasons, which represent the harmony and order of the universe, are reacting in terror as Earth below bursts into flame. Even the great astrological bands that arch through the heavens are disrupted. Outside the picture frame, Jupiter, the supreme god, has just unleashed a thunderbolt aimed at Phaeton in order to save the universe from complete destruction. As the chariot disintegrates and the horses tumble apart, Phaeton plunges to his death.
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