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2. When Literature Meets Painting …
Since antiquity, literature in all its genres,
has inspired painters to pick up the brush and retell a story with lines and colors ...

5. Art in Detail
When Literature Meets Painting …

6. Bouguereau and the Inferno
Divine Comedy epic poem by Dante Alighieri

7. BOUGUEREAU, William-Adolphe
Dante and Virgi
1850
Oil on canvas, 281x 225 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

8. In the eighth circle of Hell reserved for falsifiers and counterfeiters ...
Devil smiling with crossed arms
Schicchi Italian usurper attackin to Capocchio, famous alchemist
Dante in the red and black with a face of terror
Virgil with a pan of his garment under his nose annoyed by the petrifying smell

17. Goya and Kronos
Theogony poem by Hesiod

18. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
Saturn Saturn Devouring One of his Children
1819-23
Plaster mounted on canvas, 146 x 83 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

19. Kronos,the Titan king of the gods gained his throne from his father Ouranos after he chopped off his dad's
man-parts with a sickle. Um...ouch.
Ouranos prophesied that Kronos would lose his throne to one of his kids. And Kronos decided to start eating
the baby gods. Yep.
Unfortunately for Kronos the little godlet named Zeus, fulfilled the prophecy. Oops.

24. Ingres and Oedipus
Oedipus Rex tragedy by Sophocles

25. INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Oedipus and the Sphynx
1808-25
Oil on canvas, 189 x 144 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

27. the Sphinx
a crazy monster with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a lioness, the wings of a bird
his favorite activity is sitting on a big rock outside of Thebes and asking everybody a riddle
when people get it wrong (and they always do) she strangles them, or eats them, or some other such awful thing

29. Oedipus
widely known as "that-dude-who-killed-his-dad-and-slept-with-his-mom“
strolls up to the Sphinx's rock (stepping over the bones of those of failed before him)
... and solves the Enigma
(the Sphinx is so disgusted that it throws itself off a cliff and dies).

32. Koch and Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

33. KOCH, Joseph Anton
Macbeth and the Witches
1829-1830
Oil on canvas, 114 x155.2 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

34. a man hears an exciting prophecy about his future and decides to take fate into his own hand by killing his king ...

37. First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
Third Witch: All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter.
Act I, scene iii

41. Delacroix and Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

42. DELACROIX, Eugène
Hamlet and His Mother
1848
Oil on canvas, (27.3 x 18.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

43. Hamlet, the Shakespearean hero, imperfect, immoderate and immature ...

45. How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
Hamlet, Act III. scene iv

49. Schubert and Circe
Odyssey epic poem attributed to Homer

50. SCHUBERT, Wilhelm van Ehrenberg, (animals
RUTHART, Carl Borromäus Andreas)
Ulysses at the Palace of Circe
1667
Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 121.6 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles

52. Circe is the sexy witch, a true pet lover, that fills her palace with her strangely docile lions, panthers, and pigs.
Odysseus is brave, strong, handsome, wily, loyal, pious and gets friendly with Circe (like really friendly).
... Hey, maybe Circe not so bad after all. Eh…

58. Waterhouse and the Sirens
Odyssey epic poem attributed to Homer

59. WATERHOUSE, John William
Ulysses and the Sirens
1891
Oil on canvas, 100.6 × 202 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

60. The Sirens, in Odysseus’ tale :
Come this way, honored Odysseus,
great glory of the Achaians,
and stay your ship,
so that you can listen here to our singing;

65. Dali and the Rabbit Hole
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

66. DALI, Salvador
Alice in Wonderland, Down the Rabbit Hole
1969
Woodcut, 11" x 17"

67. the Rabbit Hole
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the rabbit hole is the place where it all begins
it's Alice's unthinking decision to follow the White Rabbit
... the rabbit hole is the entry to the fantasy world

72. Art in Detail_ When Literature Meets Painting …
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