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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Aug 16

sketch from an athens visit

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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · Jan 8

New publication! Just out from Oxford University Press, "Voiceless, Invisible, Countless" w/ chapters from me, David Lewis, Deb Kamen, Lucia Cecchet, Sarah Murray, Sarah Forsdyke, Sara Wijma, Tony Edwards, and Julien Zurbach -- edited by Sam Gartland and David Tandy

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Dec 30

A John Reinhard Weguelin study as a break from exam revision :)

Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hecate - the last Classicstober prompt! A study of John William Waterhouse's The Magic Circle.

Thank you @greekmythcomix.bsky.social for organising this challenge 🫶

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Nov 5

Tiresias

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Nov 4

A study of Gheorge Tattarescu's Nemesis.

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Nov 3

Nyx

I'm in denial that October is over 🤭

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Nov 2

Pygmalion

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Nov 1

Thetis' supplication of Zeus.

Partial study of Anton Losenko's painting.

Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 31

I'm sleepy so here's a rushed and belated Talos for Classicstober </3

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 28

A quick busride sketch :)

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 27

thank you!!

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 27

iamque iterum moriens non est de coniuge quicquam questa suo: quid enim nisi se queretur amatam?

Now dying again, she did not complain of anything of her husband: for what had she to complain about except his love?

Metamorphoses, 10.60-61

(Please don't judge my hasty late night translation 🤧)

Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 27

A study of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's "Orpheus leading Eurydice from the Underworld".

I'm partial to Ovid's version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, as elegant as Vergil's is.

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 27

A study of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's "Orpheus leading Eurydice from the Underworld".

I'm partial to Ovid's version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, as elegant as Vergil's is.

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 25

Inspired by the Walter Crane illustration of Midas.

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 25

"Psyche Entering Cupid's Garden" (John William Waterhouse)

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 23

Day 20: Odysseus - a somewhat belated return :p

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · Oct 20

I love Burne-Jones, but especially because when he learned that mummy brown--a well-used pigment at the time--was made from actual, pulverized mummies, he was so horrified that he immediately ran to his studio and gathered his stock of the stuff, which he then insisted on giving a Christian burial

Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 19

Reference: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones' Sisyphus

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 20

Oh goodness that's a dramatic story I wasn't expecting 🤭

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 20

I got a bit stranded with some flooding (all safe now!) but very ironically will not be able to complete the Odysseus prompt for Classicstober until I make my way properly home (or buy some pencils while I'm here) :p

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 19

Reference: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones' Sisyphus

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 18

Detail study of Cabanel's Phaedra.

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 17

Atalanta

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Marie Gurr @sentientnostrils.bsky.social · Oct 17

Inspired by Beatrice Offor's Circe.

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · Oct 16

the fact that i wrote a book about medieval art while mostly insanely sleep deprived and the editors at PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE were like "yeah, looks great, send it to print" is absolutely mind boggling lmaooo

A page from the weird medieval guys book with a medieval illustration of a snake and the following text:

LATIN NAME: SERPENS
WHERE IT ABIDES: SNAKES,
UNFORTUNATELY, ARE ALL OVER
THE PLACE
STRENGTHS: FEMININE WILES,
EXCELLENT SALESMANSHIP
WEAKNESSES: NO ARMS IS PRETTY
EMBARRASSING
VIRTUE: 1 * BEAUTY: 2 * DANGER: 3

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