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18 Jul 2021
BLUSHING BRIDE: The Helleu plaque
In the latest of her occasional columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at some of the unique items on show at The Bowes Museum, where she is a volunteer.
IN a Bowes Museum guide book dated 1996, there is a picture of a small porcelain bust of a rather forlorn looking woman. It is titled The Bride. Made by Worcester, the enamelled colours are meant to make it look more lifelike, but instead they seem to add to the feeling of sadness from her expression beneath her spotted net veil.
And yet, the bridal veil which dates back to Greek and Roman times was supposed to hide a bride “from evil spirits who might want to thwart her happiness”.
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.