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The astonishing 'Phaeton', by Gustave Moreau, watercolour, 1878.
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), The Fall of Phaeton, oil on canvas, 1604-05
Helios and Phaeton
Video about the artist: https://t.co/w57f7Zd8FY
Magnificent painting from Greek Mythology & the French Baroque, Helios & Phaeton with Saturn by Nicolas Poussin, https://t.co/58zqyzZo0P
Helios and Phaeton
Video about the artist: https://t.co/w57f7Zd8FY
Magnificent painting from Greek Mythology & the French Baroque, Helios & Phaeton with Saturn by Nicolas Poussin, https://t.co/58zqyzZo0P
Old Fox sipped his sherry & began. Up on the Sea Road, on stormy nights, there's a ghost phaeton comes round the turn by Hedgehog's cottage. It belonged to the wife of a young Captain. She was racing to see him after six months away & her carriage turned in the speed of it.
Phaeton believed he could command the Sun's chariot but lost control of its horses. They rode too high and the Earth froze, then too low and the land was parched. He would have set the world alight had Zeus not struck him down with a thunderbolt...
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Helios and Phaeton
Video about the artist: https://t.co/w57f7Zd8FY
Magnificent painting from Greek Mythology & the French Baroque, Helios & Phaeton with Saturn by Nicolas Poussin, https://t.co/58zqyzZo0P