Adaptation of Classical Myth
Perham Wilhelm Nahl, “The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules” (1915), color offset lithograph (as booklet cover and broadside poster), advertisement for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held at San Francisco 20 Feb – 1 Dec 1915. The original is now held in a private collection. — OGCMA …
Sir Thomas Larence (1769-1830) painted a remarkable portrait of Pope Pius VII (1819)* referencing two mythological sculptural masterpieces from antiquity, the Laocoön and the Apollo Belvedere. Historical and intertextual reasons for this inclusion are worth considering. Historically: Pius VII (1742-1823) found himself grappling against the …
Nicolas Poussin, “Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite”, mid-1630s, oil on canvas (part of ‘Bacchanals’ series for Château de Richelieu?), Philadelphia Museum of Art, accession no. E1932-1-1 The George W. Elkins Collection, 1932. — Amphitrite1.0029_Poussin A super-hi-res of this painting is available at Google Arts & …
Titian [Tiziano Vecellio]. Italian painter, c. 1488—1576. Also known by his Italian name, Tiziano or Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, Titian was an especially prolific painter over a long career in the Italian Renaissance. He worked in many media, including oil on canvas, fresco, engraving and the like. …
Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989; pioneer Japanese manga and anime; “god of manga” Osamu Tezuka remains one of the most widely acknowledged manga artists of post-war Japan. An artist whose influence has been felt internationally for his development of Astro Boy (1952-1968), Princess Knight (1953-1956), and many …
Thackeray, William Makepeace. English author, lithographer. 1811–1863. Thackeray is dually recognized for his contributions to 19th-century literature and art. Though he wrote early as a journalist, he wrote Flore and Zephyr (1836) in the year of his marriage, and his most lasting written work is …
Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1809-1873. “Zephyr Dancing with Flora.” Marble sculpture on decorative base. 1870. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; accession number 16.8, gift of Mrs. Cameron D. Waterman. — FloraZephyr2.0001_Benzoni Zephyr wears no clothing and Flora’s sheer gown only covers his modesty, as the …
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Osamu Tezuka, 1927-1989, character of Zephyrus in Swallowing the Earth Tikyuwo Nomu. English translation by Kumar Sivasubramanian, 2009. Gardena, CA, Digital Manga Publishing. — Original serialized in Big Komikku, 1968-1969. Tezuka Osamu manga zenshū, Vol. 259-60. Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1982. Zephyrus is part of Tezuka’s “star …
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