Telling Tales is an intimate exhibition that explores how artists communicate the essential aspects of stories through expression, gesture, setting and composition. The exhibition features twelve artworks created by six artists: Edgar Degas’ dynamic history painting, The Rape of the Sabines (1861-2); Vincenzo Catena’s portrayal of a popular religious story, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (early 16th c.); Willem Reuter’s lively scene of Italian street life, A Roman Market (1669); Gerard Hoet’s Mercury and Herse (late 17th c.), taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; three lithographs by Eugene Delacroix illustrating Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet (1834-1843); and Goya’s print series The Disasters of War (published in 1863), which records the atrocities of the Napoleonic invasion and the occupation of Spain during the Peninsular War (1807–14).
gesture, setting and composition.
Telling Tales features twelve artworks created by six artists: Edgar Degas’ dynamic history
painting, The Rape of the Sabines (1861-2); Vincenzo Catena’s portrayal of a popular religious
story, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (early 16th c.); Willem Reuter’s lively scene of Italian
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life, A Roman Market (1669); Gerard Hoet’s Mercury and Herse (late 17th c.), taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; three lithographs by Eugene Delacroix illustrating Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet (1834-1843); and Goya’s print series The Disasters of War (published in 1863), which records the atrocities of the Napoleonic invasion and Telling Tales is an intimate exhibition that explores how artists communicate the essential aspects of stories through expression, gesture, setting and composition. The exhibition features twelve artworks created by six artists: Edgar Degas’ dynamic history painting, The Rape of the Sabines (1861-2); Vincenzo Catena’s portrayal of a popular religious story, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (early 16th c.); Willem Reuter’s lively scene of Italian street life, A Roman Market (1669); Gerard Hoet’s Mercury and Herse (late 17th c.), taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; three lithographs by Eugene Delacroix illustrating Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet (1834-1843); and Goya’s print series The Disasters of War (published in 1863), which records the atrocities of the Napoleonic invasion and the occupation of Spain during the Peninsular War (1807–14).
