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Ghost on the Mend
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Oedipus at Colonus
Artist: Fulchran Jean Harriet (French, 1778–1805)
Date: 1798
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Description
The ancient mythical Greek king Oedipus fulfilled his fate by unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. He subsequently blinded himself and was exiled. Here, Oedipus reprimands himself, while protecting his daughter Antigone.
Oedipus became popular in France just after the French Revolution, since the subject addressed the return of exiles. The ancient Greek writer Sophocles provided the best-known version of the tragedy, but an interpretation that played in Paris in 1797 inspired Harriet’s work.
The Three Ages of Humans
Artist: Dosso Dossi (Italian, 1486–1541/42)
Date: 1515
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
The Lady of Shalott
Artist: Arthur Hughes (English, 1832–1915)
Date: 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private Canadian Collection
Description
Hughes was particularly inspired by the poetry of Keats and Tennyson. The Lady of Shalott was inspired by lines from Tennyson’s lines;
‘Out upon the wharfs they came,
Knight and burgher, lord and dame,
And round the prow they read her name,
The Lady of Shalott.’
Same location, different weather
The Garden of Eden
Artist: Thomas Cole (American, 1801-1848)
Date: 1828
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Alexander and Diogenes
Artist: Jan Frans van Bloemen (Flemish, 1662-1749)
Date: Late 17th—mid-18th century
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States
Description
Jan Frans van Bloemen's Alexander and Diogenes depicts the famed encounter where the philosopher Diogenes famously asked Alexander the Great to "move out of my light," showcasing Van Bloemen's signature serene Roman Campagna landscapes with classical ruins, detailed architecture (like the Arch of Titus), soft lighting, and figures in antique dress, embodying the artist's idealized, Arcadian vision infused with historical narrative, characteristic of his later work.
The Stone Cottage, Old Lyme
Artist: Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)
Date: 1903
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, United States
