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The Lesche of the Knidians (or Cnidians) was a lesche, i.e. a club or meeting place, at the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. Today, it has been mostly destroyed; the only surviving parts are some architectural relics. It hosted two famous paintings by the famous painter Polygnotus the Thasian, namely the Capture of Troy and the Nekyia. It was ...
The painting became part of the collection of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, in 1819. [1] [2] Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan has been cited as one of the most important works from Velázquez's first trip to Italy [3] and "one of his most successful compositions with regard to the unified, natural interaction of the figures." [4]
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Where traditional compositions generally contrast an ordered, harmonious heavenly world above with the tumultuous events taking place in the earthly zone below, in Michelangelo's conception the arrangement and posing of the figures across the entire painting give an impression of agitation and excitement, [4] and even in the upper parts there is "a profound disturbance, tension and commotion ...
The intricate painting depicts figures circling around Tiepolo's rendering of Apollo, the sun god; this represents planets orbiting the Sun. The cornice of the painting symbolize the continents Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. [1] It was identified in the ceiling of a corridor at the Hendon Hall Hotel, London, in 1954.
The Death of Hyacinthos, sometimes referred to as The Death of Hyacinth, is an oil painting completed by Jean Broc in 1801. This is Broc's most famous work and is considered to be drawn from the Metamorphoses by Ovid. It is a depiction of the dead Hyacinthos cradled by his lover, the Greek god Apollo.
Since then, various scholars have postulated that the central couple represent Neptune and Salacia, [8] Glaucus and Scylla, [9] Venus and Triton, [7] and Peleus and Thetis. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] This scene is the most sexually explicit of the whole series because of the placement of the principal male figure's hand on the pubic region of his companion.
The painting's catalogue entry at the time of its first exhibition described it as "Homer receiving homage from all the great men of Greece, Rome and modern times. The Universe crowns him, Herodotus burns incense. [2] The Iliad and Odyssey sit at his feet." Study for Phidias in The Apotheosis of Homer, oil on canvas, 1827, San Diego Museum of Art