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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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From November, 2025

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From March, 2023

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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

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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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From December, 2023