Adaptation of Classical Myth
Nicolas Poussin, “Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite”, mid-1630s, oil on canvas (part of ‘Bacchanals’ series for Château de Richelieu?), Philadelphia Museum of Art, accession no. E1932-1-1 The George W. Elkins Collection, 1932. — Amphitrite1.0029_Poussin A super-hi-res of this painting is available at Google Arts & …
Sir Thomas Larence (1769-1830) painted a remarkable portrait of Pope Pius VII (1819)* referencing two mythological sculptural masterpieces from antiquity, the Laocoön and the Apollo Belvedere. Historical and intertextual reasons for this inclusion are worth considering. Historically: Pius VII (1742-1823) found himself grappling against the …
Bethany C. Morrow (2020), A Song Below Water (Tor Teen) — two adolescent sirens in and off-shore contemporary Portland, Oregon encounter challenges not unfamiliar to the adolescent and YA readers who will read the novel. I CONFESS*: I am not in the demographic readership for whom Bethany …