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The Fire of the Underworld and Persephone's Body: The Abduction as Depicted by Padovanino

The Fire of the Underworld and Persephone's Body: The Abduction as Depicted by Padovanino

The changing of the seasons exists because Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, wanted a woman to love. But what young woman would agree to leave Earth to live in the Underworld forever? The solution was abduction, a recurring plot device in mythologi...
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Waterhouse's *Echo and Narcissus*: When Impossible Love Becomes Eternal

Waterhouse's *Echo and Narcissus*: When Impossible Love Becomes Eternal

Echo and Narcissus. A young woman and a young man bound by myth. Two lives that intertwine, leading to a sad and tragic ending. Falling in love with an unrequited or impossible love is a source of anguish and death for them, yet neither has ever ce...
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If the gods of Olympus dwell on a ceiling painted by Veronese

If the gods of Olympus dwell on a ceiling painted by Veronese

For nearly five hundred years, anyone who enters the Hall of Olympus at Villa Barbaro in Maser, in the province of Treviso, has had the impression of being watched—and, in a certain sense, protected—by the principal deities of the Greek pantheon. Ar...
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Circe’s Cup and the Fate of Odysseus: Two Masterpieces, Two Interpretations of the Myth

Circe’s Cup and the Fate of Odysseus: Two Masterpieces, Two Interpretations of the Myth

A cup containing a magic potion, Ulysses and Circe: one of the most enigmatic episodesof the Odyssey takes place right in the sorceress’s home, where seduction, metamorphosis, and deception intertwine, captivating and inspiring the paintings of many...
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