alexander calder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/calder-sears-bankruptcy-1441741

titian ... the offerings to venus, c.1518 ... compare and contrast ... rubens, 1636 etc

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-worship-to-venus/42b30ed4-0e79-4f2b-aa62-091a27f895b3



rubens' copy of the titian  ...

rubens' re-invention of the titian ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feast_of_Venus_(Rubens)





the preliminary sketch that fra bartolomeo had made of the subject, his commission and the sketch being passed on to titian after his death

footnote ... fra bartolomeo, a lovely painter, largely ignored since his achievements were overshadowed by the giants of the italian renaissance ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Bartolomeo

full translation of philostratus of lemnos here ...

https://www.theoi.com/Text/PhilostratusElder1A.html#6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philostratus_of_Lemnos

deep in the dungeons of the bibliotheque nationale de france ...

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525006749/f1.item.r=edmond%20malassis.zoom?fbclid=IwAR0QvrZG_j3dwf24UEZd5Izfjdr02tAtIPfWRyZZp0FY_hyr_fdHJlMvpI4

playfully serious and seriously painterly ... the amazing margaret bowland ... who was caught in the unseemly scramble for the moral high ground by a bunch of people with knee-jerk intellects, sandpaper tongues and cloth ears

https://indyweek.com/topics/margaret-bowland/



http://camraleigh.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MargaretBowland-GalleryGuide.pdf

mary emma jones by frederick sandys

i am dazed and confused because the picture above was NOT by frederick sandys but by his sister emma !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sandys

https://historiarumblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/frederick-sandys-his-sitters-and-his-works-in-relation-to-the-pre-raphaelites-in-depth/

reference material on sandys career as a magazine illustrator ...

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/sandys/cooke.html

mermaids