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Pygmalion and Galatea (French: Pygmalion et Galatée) is an 1890 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. [1] The motif is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses and depicts the sculptor Pygmalion kissing his statue Galatea at the moment the goddess Aphrodite brings her to life.
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Gérôme also sculpted a tinted-marble Pygmalion and Galatea (1891) based on his paintings. [ 3 ] In this cycle of works, with its exploration of Classical antiquity , creative inspiration, doppelgängers , and female beauty, we see Gérôme "powerfully evoking the continuous interplay between painting and sculpture, reality and artifice, as ...
6.7 Pygmalion and the Image Series or "Pygmalion and Galatea ... (c. 1868–1873), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ... studies were rendered of all the images.
Pygmalion and the Image is the second series of four oil paintings in the Pygmalion and Galatea series by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones which was completed between 1875 and 1878. The two collections may be seen below, in the Gallery , the first being now owned by Lord Lloyd Webber , [ 1 ] and the second housed at the Birmingham ...
Cleveland Museum of Art 23 x 12 x 15 More images: Andromeda: 1889 Bronze More images: Pygmalion and Galatea [49] 1889 Marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 97.2 x 88.9 x 76.2 More images: Cybele: 1889 to 1890 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 160 × 79 × 120 More images: She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife [50] 1889 to 1890 ...
Pygmalion and Galatea are two characters from Greco-Roman mythology. Pygmalion and Galatea may also refer to: Pygmalion and Galatea, a play by W. S. Gilbert; Pygmalion and the Image series, a series of paintings by Edward Burne-Jones; Pygmalion and Galatea (Gérôme painting), a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Pygmalion and Galatea is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet. It represents the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea as told by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The figures Pygmalion and Galatea are shown with Cupid, the god of desire. Girodet began the work in 1813, but it took him eight years to complete. [1]