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Sappho and Phaon was the second of David's major paintings to take a mythological love story as its subject, after The Loves of Paris and Helen from 1788. [2] It is visually very similar to that earlier work – the two paintings are sufficiently similar that a preparatory drawing for Sappho and Phaon was traditionally identified as being a ...
Sappho, Phaon, and Cupid. Jacques-Louis David, 1809. In Greek mythology, Phaon (Ancient Greek: Φάων; gen.: Φάωνος) was a mythical boatman of Mytilene in Lesbos. He was old and ugly when Aphrodite came to his boat. She put on the guise of a crone. Phaon ferried her over to Asia Minor and accepted no payment for doing so. In return, she ...
Sappho and Phaon.A Jacques-Louis David painting from the Moika Palace in Saint Petersburg. Lyly dramatised the ancient Greek legend of the romance of Sappho and Phaon, drawing on Ovid's "Letter from Sappho to Phaon", from the Heroides, and Aelian's Varia Historia (translated into English by Abraham Fleming in 1576).
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The style of Busey’s work is a fitting way to rectify its namesake’s historical legacy. In the hundreds of years after her death around 570 B.C.E., Sappho was often portrayed in art as ...
Sappho and Phaon: 1808 oil on canvas 225,3 × 262 Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia The Coronation of Napoleon (copy of 1806–07 painting) 1808–1822 oil on canvas 610 × 971 Museum of the History of France, Versailles: The Distribution of the Eagle Standards: 1810 oil on canvas 610 × 931 Versailles, France
Selby Wynn Schwartz's 'After Sappho,' a fictionalized, kaleidoscopic of glamorous early feminists, turns staid narratives on their heads. A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist ...
Ovid's Heroides 15 is written as a letter from Sappho to Phaon, and when it was first rediscovered in the 15th century was thought to be a translation of an authentic letter by Sappho. [187] Sappho's suicide was also depicted in classical art, for instance on the first-century BC Porta Maggiore Basilica in Rome. [186]