Sirens, dragons, gods and strange emblems: discover how artists have pictured myths and legends, and how to read the stories inside the paintings.
Before the witch was a Halloween costume, she was a picture. Twenty masterworks show how painters invented her: the cauldron, the goat in the night sky, the pointed hat and the beautiful enchantress with a cup.
Horn and ivory gates, nocturnal figures and competing interpretations in the final plate of Le Temple des Muses.
Where sirens came from, how they grew fish tails, what Odysseus did about them, and why the French still use one word for both.
The river, the reeds and the commentary’s cosmic Pan reveal a landscape shaped by Syrinx’s escape.
Songs that wreck ships, mermaids on the rocks and the creatures sailors swore they saw, from Homer to Kuniyoshi.
Myth, monsters and dream architecture offer different kinds of darkness for a room devoted to slow looking.
The legend told in full, the real soldier who inspired it, what the dragon stands for, and why England, Catalonia, Georgia and Moscow all call him their own.
From reviewed scene extraction to individual image review: how Fable prepares an engraving for a contemporary colour interpretation.
From a Roman soldier's tomb to the Pre-Raphaelites, the story of the most painted fight in Western art, told through fifteen masterworks you can hang at home.