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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.
Nilsson says that Hyacinthus is a Cretan word, and its pre-Hellenic origin is indicated by the suffix -nth. [32] Hyacinthus personifies the sprouting vegetation in spring, which is killed by the heat of the summer. [33] The apotheosis of Hyacinthus indicates that, after attaining godhood, he represented the natural cycle of decay and renewal. [34]
The Death of Hyacinthos, by Jean Broc. Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers. Jean Broc (1771–1850) was a French neoclassical painter. His most famous work, The Death of Hyacinthos, was completed and exhibited at the Salon in 1801. [1] Hyacinthus was a young male beauty and lover of the god Apollo.
The death of Hyacinthus was celebrated at Amyclae by the second most important of Spartan festivals, the Hyacinthia (Ancient Greek Ὑακίνθια / Hyakínthia) in the Spartan month Hyacinthius in early summer.
Hyacinthus's daughters, who were sacrificed either to Athena or Persephone, were known in the Attic legends by the name of the "Hyacinthides", which they derived from their father. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The names and numbers of the Hyacinthides differ in the different writers.
Like Achilles, he is represented (although not by Homer) as living after his death on the island of Leuke at the mouth of the Danube. [21] Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a ...
The Death of Hyacinthus, oil painting by Méry-Joseph Blondel. Hermes asks Apollo why he appears so despondent. Apollo replies that it’s due to his unfortunate love life and his mourning over the death of his lover, Hyacinthus, the son of Oebalus. Hermes inquires if Hyacinthus is indeed dead, to which Apollo confirms.
He first exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his Death of Hyacinthus, and the plaster cast of his Cain and His Race Cursed By God. Adolphe Thiers , who was at this time minister of public works, now commissioned him to execute the two groups of Peace and War , flanking the arch on the east facade ...