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the-evil-clergyman · 5 months

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Dance of the Nymphs by Nikolaos Gyzis (19th Century)

#nikolaos gyzis #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #symbolism #symbolist art #painting #greek art #greek artist #mythology #greek mythology #bacchante #maenad #classic art

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oldpaintings · 11 months

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Nikolaos Gyzis (Greek, 1842–1901)

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psikonauti · 11 months

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Νικόλαος Γύζης (Nikolaos Gyzis) (Greek,1842-1900)

Αλληγορία της ζωγραφικής (Allegory of painting), 1890

#upl #va #art #painting #Νικόλαος Γύζης #Nikolaos Gyzis

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venustapolis · 7 days

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Behold the Celestial Bridegroom Cometh (Nikolaos Gyzis, 1895)

#art #painting #Nikolaos Gyzis

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random-brushstrokes · 10 months

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Nikolaos Gyzis - Test of patience (1880)

#nikolaos gyzis #greek art #genre painting #1880s

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anouri · 1 year

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i know your soul is not tainted, even though you’ve been told so

nikolaos gyris // the 1975 // andrei tarkovsky // richard siken // caravaggio // traci brimhall // the 1975 // anne sexton // marie howe // eliran kantor // ghost

#made this for the religious trauma girlies #(me. i am a religious trauma girlie)#web weaving #the 1975 #caravaggio #eliran kantor #nikolaos gyzis #richard siken #richard siken’s crush has altered my brain chemistry #i will take a crowbar and pry out the broken pieces of god in me #god must hate me #religious trauma #love as religion #she then embraced sweet death as if she were a ghost #is to cherish to destroy?#mine

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wordsmithic · 11 months

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"The Soulmother", Nikolaos Gyzis - 1883

A psychomana ("ψυχομάνα", lit. soul mother) in Hellenic/Greek is the term traditionally used for surrogate mothers and wetnurses. There are two theories for what this painting depicts.

The first wants the mother in black to be the biological mother of the child, who envies the other woman for the milk she offers to her child. The basket shows that this woman came for a while, just enough for the child to be fed.

The second theory speculates that the mother of the black-clad child is dead, probably because of childbirth. The child and the woman who brought it are both dressed in black for mourning. Perhaps the woman on the left is the deceased mother's sister. The soulmother will be nursing the child from now on. The feeling of envy could still be present in the black-clad woman. Perhaps she would like to nurse the child her sister left behind but she is unable to offer as much.

Personally, I think the second theory is closer to the artist's intent. In our tradition, it's not appropriate for a child so young to be dressed in black. So if someone dressed the kid like this, it would be for the mother's funeral.

#a bit of an unusual post but I just could NOT leave this painting without shouting to the void about it #hellas #hellenismos #nikolaos gyzis #art #painting #mother #wetnurse #history

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mysterious-secret-garden · 10 months

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