Tag: art documentaries
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Deep Waters by Lilias Trotter
Art as faith. Faith as art. “‘I am come into deep waters’ took on a new meaning this morning. It started with perplexing matters concerning the future. Then it dawned that shallow waters were a place where you can neither sink nor swim, but in deep waters it is one or the other: ‘waters to…
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is a masterpiece, illustrating our evolving associations with the color blue. Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance, at lower left.…