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25 May 2021
MONSTERS: The Dragon Slayer, painted by Hendrick Jacob Hoet
In the latest of her regular columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look behind the scenes at The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer
WHERE do painters get their inspiration? It might be easier to say where they don’t. Anything and everything can light a spark of creativity.
A bowl of fruit, a beautiful woman or a sweeping landscape. Or maybe a truly epic tale like the history of the world – one such as that penned by the 1st century Roman poet, Ovid.
He wrote a narrative poem of mythological stories called the Metamorphoses and it has inspired countless examples of art, and not just paintings.