Tag: Frederic Leighton

The Coming of Spring: Leighton’s ‘The Return of Persephone’

The arrival of spring, especially after a hard winter, makes us all happy and hopeful for new life. The ancients believed the gods were in charge of everything on earth and explained how they gave us the seasons. The Greeks explained the coming of spring and the changing seasons with the myth of Demeter, goddess…


Building on Tradition: ‘Winding the Skein’

There’s always a place for the beauty, care, and respect found in traditional culture. We can search for it and find a way to bring it into the future so that the generations after us have a foundation on which they can build. The 19th-century British painter Frederic Leighton inspired me to deeply think about…