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Greek Myth in Western Painting
From Medici groves to Philip II’s poesie, Western painters used Ovid and recovered sculpture to make Greek stories into court pictures.
Vase-painting and Botticelli postcards crowd the same search. This guide stays with Western painting after antiquity: Medici panels, Titian’s poesie for Philip II, Poussin’s reconstructed rites, and the academy’s later rank for Ovid on canvas. Ancient Greek art is linked out, not surveyed here.
Christian Iconography in Western Art
How Western painters coded Christ, Mary and the saints so a viewer could read liturgy, legend and civic claim in one glance.
Museum labels still assume you can tell Peter from Paul at ten paces. This guide maps the working grammar of Western Christian pictures: attributes, feast types, altar programmes, and the difference between a cult image and a story cycle, with named works from Ravenna, Siena, Ghent and the National Gallery.
