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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.
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]
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 ...
Persephone (painting) Polyphemus (Sebastiano del Piombo) Prometheus (Orozco) Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan; Prometheus Bound (Rubens) Prometheus Bound (Thomas Cole) Psamathe (Leighton) The Psyché (My Studio) Psyche Abandoned (painting) Pygmalion and Galatea (Girodet) Pygmalion and Galatea (Gérôme painting) Pygmalion and the Image series
Pigmalion, more commonly today Pygmalion, is an opera in the form of a one-act acte de ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 27 August 1748 at the Paris Opera. The libretto is by Ballot de Sauvot. This work has generally been regarded as the best of Rameau's one-act pieces. He was said to have composed the work in eight days.
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 (Gérôme painting) Pygmalion and the Image series; R. The Rape of Europa (Claude Lorrain) The Rape of Europa (Titian) S. Sisyphus (Titian) V.
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 Bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art 49.5 x 30.5 x 19.7 More images: Glaucus: 1889 to ...