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diioonysus · 9 months

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aphrodite & venus + art

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greenieflor · 2 years

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📜 please!

(Aaa thank you so much!! I'm such a huge fan of the Leda 'verse I'm having a Moment)

11. 📜 - Favorite myth/fairytale/folklore?

This is a tough one for me, I love mythology and have been studying it/learning about it in some way (mostly Greek) for ~15 years so this might get a little long.

My first instinct is to say the Rape of Persephone, the story of her first descent into the underworld. I have a tattoo dedicated to her and her roles as both Queen of the Underworld and Goddess of Spring (I'm doing a whole sleeve of mythological tattoos) as it has spoken to me in a lot of different ways over the years, I really love looking at the recent (5-10 years) changes in how the story is contextualized. The change from the common understanding being explicitly a rape or kidnapping of Persephone by Hades to her willingly entering the Underworld/wanting to stay there with Hades is something I find really intriguing, especially in conjunction with the similar change in the story of Medusa- going from her seducing Poseidon to him outright raping her in the Temple of Athena, from her being a monster and punished to her transformation to a Gorgon being a blessing and a way to protect herself from men.

I would have to say though that my favourite myth is Pandora's Jar (it would have been a storage jar, not a box). It's the first story I ever learned from Greek mythology and has stuck with me for a lot of reasons beyond that.

Pandora was created by the gods to be a gift to the humans after Prometheus shaped the new age out of clay to repopulate the earth, for whom he later stole fire from the gods. Zeus, along with Hepheastus, Aphrodite, and Hermes, created and blessed Pandora with beauty and cunning with Zeus giving her the final gift of curiosity. Before she was brought down to earth to be a bride for Epimetheus, Prometheus' younger brother, Zeus gave her a jar and instructed her never to open it, no matter what.

The jar, of course, was filled with all the miseries of man that we know today. When she opened the jar they all flew free, save for Hope, which was stuck under the rim of the jar and trapped when Pandora slammed the lid shut. She does eventually reopen the jar, allowing hope free, and giving us that which can be a light in times of darkness.

Pandora and Epimetheus' daughter, Pyrrah, later marries Deucellion and the pair become the only two humans to survive the great flood and are then tasked with repopulating the earth.

I could go on for hours about the path these stories take and I probably will at some point, but this is already incredibly long.

Thank you so much for the ask!

Ask Game

#asks #lav rambles #mythology #yes im going to be studying theology at school how could you tell #someone ask me about the birth of venus by nicolas poussin #ive got a literal ted talk on it

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mask131 · 2 months

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The Dionysos gallery (1)

I wanted to conclude my long series of Dionysos posts with a collection of Dionysos and Bacchus paintings that were carefully collected by the website of the French Museum of Wine! (Only in France can you have a museum of wine be a normal thing)

First we have an entire section about Dionysos himself. The page is here if you are interested.

I/ Dionysos as a child and a teenager

Giulio Romano's The Birth of Bacchus

Laurence de la Hyre's Mercury entrusting Bacchus to the Nymphs

Giovanni Bellini's Child Bacchus

William-Adolphe Bouguereau's The Youth of Bacchus

Caravagio's Bacchus

Caesar van Everdingen's Nymphs offering wine, fruits and flowers to the young Bacchus

II) Bacchus as a god

Titien's Bacchus and Ariadne

Guido Reni's Bacchus and Ariadne

Brothers Le Nain's Bacchus discovering Ariadne at Naxos

Alessandro Turchi's Bacchus and Ariadne

Caesar van Everdingen's Bacchus with two nymphs and Cupid

Charles de la Fosse's Bacchus and Ariadne

Jean-François de Troy's Bacchus and Ariadne

Sebastiano Ricci's Bacchus and Ariadne

Jacopo Amigoni's Bacchus and Ariadne

Bartolomeo Manfredi's Bacchus and a drinker

Nicolas Poussin's Midas and Bacchus

Bartholomaus Spranger's "Sine cerere et baccho friget venus", also known as Bacchus and Ceres

Louis de Caullery's Venus, Bacchus and Ceres dancing with mortals in a garden of love

Hans von Aachen's Bacchus, Ceres and Cupid

Bon Boullogne's Venus, Bacchus and Ceres

Sebastiano Ricci's Bacchus and Ceres

Maurice Dennis' Bacchus and Ariadne

#the art of the myth #dionysos #dionysus #greek god #greek mythology #ariadne #demeter #paintings #painting #art #museum #ceres #bacchus

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milehighdad · 2 years

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The Birth of Venus(1636),ニコラ・プッサン(Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665).「アルカディアの牧人たち」（ダビンチコードのモチーフになった作品に出てきたアイテムの1つ）。アート名画点特集。MUSAY。

The Abortion of the Shepherds(1765)、アントン・ラファエル・メングス( Anton Raphael Mengs　1728-1779).新古典主義の先駆者。3分で分る新古典主義の生みの親。

#art #philadelphia

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the-evil-clergyman · 3 years

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The Birth of Venus by Nicolas Poussin (1635-36)

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detailedart · 4 years

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Detail : The Birth of Venus, 1635-36, by Nicolas Poussin.

#art #art detail #details #angel #art history #paintings #painting #sky #tale #1635 #1636 #nicolas poussin #the birth of venus

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ivressesdhier · 4 years

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june, florence and the machine // summer girl, haim

the return of spring, bouguereau // the birth of venus, poussin

#florence and the machine #florence welch #art #haim #william bouguereau #nicolas poussin #venus #the birth of venus #spring #summer #can you tell how nostalgic i am ?slkjsdlkjsd

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eatingbreadandhoney · 5 years

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The Birth of Venus by Nicolas Poussin 1635‐6.

#Nicolas Poussin #baroque #Birth of Venus #aphrodite/venus #mythology

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philamuseum · 6 years

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Get hit by Cupid’s arrow as you explore both mythological and modern love and marriage on our “Love in Art” Members-Only Tour. Take the tour multiple times to experience the unique perspectives of different guides’. Space is limited, and reservations required.

“The Birth of Venus,” 1635 or 1636, by Nicolas Poussin

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artthatgivesmefeelings · 7 years

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Nicolas Poussin [French. 1594-1665] Birth of Venus c.1635-1636

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richardnoble12 · 3 years

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Life drawing Online - The Odd coupleStay at home life drawing. thanks @turriseburnea_italianmodel for hosting and modelling on Sunday 14th February 2021. "Venus".

Pose inspired by:

- Velaquez Rojaby

- Bronzino Allegoria del trinfo Di Venere o Lussuria smascerata

- Nicolas Poussin Sleeping Venus

- Botticelli Birth of Venus

- Bourguereau Birth of Venus

- Venus De Milo

Pencil and artistic pen markers. Son coloured by water colours and acrylic inks

#turriseburnealifedrawingmodel #turriseburnea #art #artwork #artnude #clothedmodel #nudemodel #lifedrawing #lifedrawingnude #sketchbook #lifedrawingvideo #onlinelifedrawinglive #February2020 #pendrawing #inks #acrylicinks #artnude #femalenude #femalemodel #pendrawing #myart #mydrawing #myartwork #mysketchbook #mysketchbook #watercolours #acrylicinks #RichardNoble