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the-evil-clergyman · 3 months

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Danaë by Jean-Baptiste Regnault (18th Century)

#jean-baptiste regnault #art #paintings #fine art #18th century #18th century art #neoclassical #neoclassicism #neoclassical art #painting #french art #french artist #mythology #greek mythology #danae #jupiter #zeus #classic art

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brother-emperors · 9 months

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something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#it's all greek to me #perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :(#perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)

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nobrashfestivity · 8 months

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Felix Labisse, Danae, 1947

b&w book scan

#felix labisse #books #danae #surrealism

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eirene · 10 months

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Danae Léon François Comerre

#Léon Comerre #french art #academicism #art #painting #art history #portrait #19th century #jewlery #mythology #greek mythology #danae #Danaë

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medusaspeach · 1 year

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studies/sketches + tentative designs for Perseus and Danae.

#greek mythology #perseus #danae #sketch #he's just a baby #medusa's peach

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thefugitivesaint · 6 months

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John D. Batten (1860-1932), 'Danae', ''La Ilustración artística'', May 29, 1893 Source

#john d. batten #John Dickson Batten #English artists #Danae #La Ilustración artística #vintage illustration #vintage art #greek myth #greek mythology

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leatherandmossprints · 1 year

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‘Danaë’ by Gustav Klimt, c. 1907-1908.

#Gustav Klimt #vintage art #classic art #art #painting #art history #old art #oil painting #art details #vintage #moody art #Danae #symbolism

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littlesparklight · 3 months

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Rescue

I wanted to focus on the actual important moment that killing Medusa is the point of. None of those dumb arts of Perseus standing with Medusa's head over her corpse how would he have time for that, anyway??? he'd be running from her sisters!

So have Perseus with his mama and foster father Diktys, saving them after they've been driven into a shrine. And said foster father's brother Polydektes reduced to what he deserves. :)

can't see that easily, but it's Hermes, Argus and cow!Io. I imagine the other side of the sword has Kronos castrating Uranus.

Perseus' colouring comes from how he was conceived, so while he looks much like his mother in his features, his eyes and hair are golden-blond and bright amber with a metallic cast to them. And Medusa's design is based on a horned desert viper!

#greek mythology #perseus #danae #tagamemnon #lightart

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the-evil-clergyman · 6 months

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Danae by Léon François Comerre (19th Century)

#leon francois comerre #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #mythology #greek mythology #danae #jupiter #zeus #classic art

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hazeleks · 17 days

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Danae Murderbot

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderhelion #artmb #painting #tmbd #inspired by Kilmt's Danae #wholesome feed activities #Danae #klimt #suggestive

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justineportraits · 10 months

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Alexander Rothaug Danae ca. 1924

#alexander rohaug #danae

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sex-death-rebirth · 1 year

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Danæ and the Shower of Gold from the Mythology Series by George Platt Lynes, 1939

#mythology #danae

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tylermileslockett · 1 month

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Medusa's Gaze (#6 in my "Quest for the Gorgon Head" series)

Part6:

With his winged sandals, Perseus flies over the sea finally coming to the barren lands of the three Gorgon sisters; the immortals- Stheno and Euryale, and the mortal sister-Medusa. Passing amongst the stony victims of animals and mortals alike, he stealthily descends deep into their lair where they sleep. Using Athena’s shield as a mirror, and invisible due to hades helmet, he quietly floats over to Medusa, rising his Adamantine sickle high for the death stroke. But she hears him! She awakes in rage, unleashing the full terrible power of her gaze upon the intruder!

In the oldest, archaic representations of the gorgon in Greek art (tombs, coins, breastplates, rooms,) the frightening head seems to function as an “apotropaic” symbol (protective amulet) to ward off evil, known as a “Gorgoneian". A fascinating aspect of the portrayal of the gorgon head in Ancient Greek art is that she uniquely portrayed as front facing, strikingly meeting the viewer’s gaze head on. While most other God’s and mortal character’s faces and bodies are shown in side profile views.

there are multiple sources for the stories involving Medusa. In Homer’s Odyssey, the gorgon is vaguely referred to as a frightening head from the underworld. In Hesiod's "Theogany,”(700 B.C. Greece)he increases the number to three sisters, with Medusa being a monster from birth who willingly lays with Poseidon, and resides in the far lands with her Gorgon sisters. It's not until 700 years later, in the Roman Poet Ovid's "Metamorphosis" (8 A.D.) that Medusa is completely reinvented as a beautiful mortal, and chaste priestess of Athena, who, after being raped by Poseidon in Athena’s temple, is cruelly cursed by Athena with snake for hairs and a stony gaze, and then exiled.

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#greekmythology #greekgods #pjo #mythology #classics #classicscommunity #myths #ancientgreece #danae #perseus #medusa #gorgon #athena

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avrelia · 1 year

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