Nicolas Poussin completed The Holy Family on the Steps in 1648, during a period of exceptional achievement in which his art attained a new degree of concentration and formal discipline. Having returned to Rome from Paris in 1642, he had resumed work for private patrons, free from many of the demands imposed upon him duringContinue reading “Nicolas Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps”
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William Blake’s Hecate: Image, Symbol and Ambiguity
William Blake’s large colour print traditionally known as Hecate, or The Triple Hecate, was made around 1795 as part of a group of twelve large colour-printed designs. Three impressions survive, in the Tate, the Huntington and the National Galleries of Scotland. No title by Blake is known, and the designation Hecate appears to have enteredContinue reading “William Blake’s Hecate: Image, Symbol and Ambiguity”
