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Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/ p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən /; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a ...
Iphigenia has just retrieved the statue from the temple and explains that when the strangers were brought in front of the statue, the statue turned and closed its eyes. Iphigenia interprets it thus to Thoas: The strangers arrived with the blood of kin on their hands and they must be cleansed. Also, the statue must be cleansed.
In September 2008, archaeologists from the University of Tübingen discovered a 6 cm (2.4 in) figurine carved from a mammoth's tusk. This figurine was later called the Venus of Hohle Fels and can be dated to at least 35,000 years ago. It represents the earliest known sculpture of this type and the earliest known work of figurative art. [9]
Galatea 2.2, 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers; Galatea is the name of the main flagship in the 1998 PC game Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War; Galatea is the name of the gynoid in the 1999 film Bicentennial Man. Galatea, a 2000 interactive fiction video game; Galatea of Justice League Unlimited (2001–2006)
The section is a solo for a woman mourning the loss of her children. A marble statue of Niobe is a female lead character in a long-running 1892 farce Niobe (play) by Harry Paulton. In the play she is bought to life by a quaint electrical storm and brings the Edwardian values and relationships in the household to disarray.
Carol Susan Jane Danvers is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan, the character first appeared as an officer in the United States Air Force and a colleague of the Kree superhero Mar-Vell in Marvel Super-Heroes #13 (March 1968).
The Whispering Statue is the fourteenth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was written by Mildred Wirt Benson, [1] whom many readers and scholars consider the "truest" of the numerous Carolyn Keene ghostwriters, following an outline by Harriet Stratemeyer. [2] The book was originally published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1937. An ...
Statue of Bastet, in her hands she holds a sistrum Bastet first appears in the third millennium BCE, where she is depicted as either a fierce lioness or a woman with the head of a lioness. [ 16 ] Two thousand years later, during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt ( c. 1070 –712 BC), Bastet began to be depicted as a domestic cat or a cat ...