Tag: Europa
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19 Works, November 19th. is Louis de Boullogne’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #237
This painting illustrates an episode taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (I, 464–577). Falling in love with the nymph Daphne, determined to remain chaste, Apollo pursues her in the woods. Begging her father, the river god Peneus, to deliver her, Daphne is then transformed into a laurel. Louis de Boullogne produced a first illustration of the theme,…
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23 Works, Today, June 3rd. is William Hilton’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #152
The Massacre of the Innocents is the incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. The Catholic Church regards them as the first Christian martyrs. A majority of…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Hellenic legends with footnotes #29. Luigi Bonazza; EUROPA
In Greek mythology Europa was the mother of King Minos of Crete, a woman with Phoenician origin of high lineage, and for whom the continent Europe was named. The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story; as classicist Károly Kerényi points out, “most of the love-stories concerning…
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Anatolij Brusilovski, Europa? 01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #22
In Greek mythology Europa was the mother of King Minos of Crete, a woman with Phoenician origin of high lineage, and for whom the continent Europe was named. The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story; as classicist Károly Kerényi points out, “most of the…
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Prague School, THE ABDUCTION OF EUROPA 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 20
Prague School, circa 1580 THE ABDUCTION OF EUROPA oil on copper 16 by 21 5/8 in.; 40.6 by 55 cm Private collection In Greek mythology Europa was the mother of King Minos of Crete, a woman with Phoenician origin of high lineage, and for whom the continent Europe was named. The story of her abduction…
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