#An Allegory of Victory

[4h20art]

"Megan Fox X An Allegory of Victory"

[jupiter-suggestion]

consider the sperm whale and the squid. an ancient rivalry that dates back millions of years. we know the whales eat the squids. we know the squids do not make it easy for them. we know this because of the scars the whales carry, scars on the outside of their body, and on the inside as well. how badly must you want something to endure wounds inside your mouth? inside your gut?

consider the whale, who is harmed by what sustains her. consider the squid, whose flesh is soft and delicious but refuses to go down easy.

[lmillustration]

Some Art redraws!

*Venus Anadyomene or Venus rising from the sea by Titian

*Diana the Huntress by Guillaume Seignac

*An Allegory Of Victory by Jules Joseph Lefebvre

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[tragediambulante]

Ingegno or Amor victorious, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1694-99

[art-allegory]

Allegory of the Regency of Anne of Austria

Artist: Laurent de La Hyre (French, 1606–1656)

Date: 1648

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Description

Allegory of the Regency of Anne of Austria is a 1648 oil on canvas painting by Laurent de La Hyre that depicts the regent Anne of Austria surrounded by allegories of Peace and Renown.

The painting is set during the Thirty Years' War and symbolizes France's receipt of peace from victory, which was an allegory of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

Anne of Austria was a Spanish princess and Queen of France who ruled as regent from 1643 to 1651 on behalf of her son, Louis XIV. She was known for her close relationship with her son and her disapproval of his marital infidelity. During her regency, she worked with Cardinal Mazarin as chief minister to overcome the Fronde, a series of revolts led by the aristocratic class.

[homophyte]

did someone like do a wellness check in mike patton in the early 90s . was he okay

[monkeyssalad-blog]

"Aeolus" Fahrräder von A. Riegler & Co., Graz. by Halloween HJB

[nerd-artist]

Throwback to my Horizon Greek Gods series, and the classic paintings they’re based on.

(Still some characters I want to add)

Diana The Huntress by Guillaume Seignac

Bacchus by Caravaggio

Hermes by W.B. Richmond

Proserpine by Rossetti

Mars by Velazquez

An Allegory of Victory by Lefebvre

The Palm Leaf and The Pearl by Bouguereau

Priestess of Vesta by Frederick Leighton

[hiddenintheveil]

eviscerated myself

i need to project on characters more

[nias-nook]

Bill Cipher and The Unicorn in Captivity

Soooo, I haven't been looking at Bill related posts much since the book dropped as I have mixed feelings on what TBOB and the subsequent site have revealed about him, his motives, his backstory etc., but (and maybe someone beat me to this) one thing I haven't seen anyone talk about yet is this,

So maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but this is The Unicorn Rests in a Garden, also known as The Unicorn in Captivity. This piece was a part of The Unicorn Tapestries. Its origins are shrouded in mystery and super interesting but I'm not really gonna touch on that here.

Now there is something to be said about how this one piece, and the rest of the tapestries tie to Bill. I'll briefly go over what the tapestry meant when it was made then dive into what contemporary interpretations of the piece say about Bill and his fundamental inability to redeem himself.

Also just want to establish before we get into this that I am...Not a scholar when it comes to this stuff. I just happened to recognise this tapestry and its symbolism when it dropped on the website and had to put my thoughts somewhere. I might add more later if I've forgotten anything, which I probably have.

Given this was a piece made in Europe in the Middle Ages, it's perhaps unsurprising that a lot of interpretations of it are biblical, but we can (mostly) safely assume Hirsch isn't going for a Christ allegory here. Then again, maybe he's going for nothing and all of this is pointless.

What is a little interesting in the wake of TBOB is its ties to marriage.

These tapestries are heavily theorised to have been made to celebrate a wedding, and their comparisons of love and marriage to a hunt that inevitably leads to the imprisonment and taming of your lover. Of course, Bill quite literally suggests this method in the book with The Love Cage that he uses in Weirdmageddon, but there's a million 'Billford is canon' posts out there so let's table that as it's pretty self-explanatory. Bill and Ford have been hunting each other for decades and Bill imprisons him in a so-called 'Love Cage' to try and convince Ford to be his 'partner' (be it platonic or romantic). This is what a victory in a relationship is to him.

What I'd like to focus on is the modern interpretation of The Unicorn in Captivity as a self-imposed prison.

"Look at that little unicorn! The beatific smile. He's happy now. He gets to live in a beautiful garden."

"Yeah, in a cage."

"A protective barrier. No one's hunting him anymore. Nor can he hurt anyone with that horn of his."

This summary of the piece is taken from the aptly titled Unicorn in Captivity from another animated series, The Venture Bros. (which, by the way, if you're looking for another show that's a whimsical and fun riff on 80s pop culture with a big mystery element, highly recommend), but this of course isn't the first piece of media to portray it this way. the most notable being The Unicorn in Captivity poem by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

The unicorn is, on the surface, a prisoner. The Theraprism that Bill is now trapped in is a place he longs to escape, but that's the thing, isn't it?

He could escape any time he wanted to.

He could slip his head From the jewelled noose So lightly tied - If he tried, As a maid could loose The belt from her side; He could slip the bond So lightly tied - If he tried.

Bill, like the unicorn, is trapping himself more than the Theraprism is trapping him, but his situation isn't to be pitied, it's karmic justice. What's so satisfying about Bill's eventual comeuppance is that he's the one making himself suffer. The only thing Bill needs to do to escape is to admit he was wrong, to stop revelling in the suffering of others, but...Well, he chooses not to.

For all of his guilt about his parents and his so-called 'dark and troubled past', Bill has never regretted a single person he's hurt since. He didn't regret taking over the world, he regretted being caught. He didn't regret hurting Ford, he regretted losing him. Bill will probably be doomed to wallow in the Theraprism for all eternity, cursing his situation and blaming everyone else for his inevitable downfall. An overgrown child who once had too much power and lost it all throwing a tantrum for the ages.

But now he can't hurt anyone with that horn of his.

[aliusfrater]

i've said it before and i'll say it again: sam winchester as a character is what happens when you've created a character that doesn't fit the standard of masculinity you've set within the narrative of the show but said show remains heteronormative enough for it not to be able to create a 'role' for this character (who is now also Othered for said weird masculinity) that isn't just another traditionally gendered role. sam falls into the position of the woman — the smart and endearing hero who cannot achieve victory on his own in most cases or the damsel in distress in others. eric kripke always talks about sam and dean as characters inspired by luke skywalker and han solo respectively but i think he failed to account for the genre change: the sci-fi political critique that is star wars vs the horror americana critique that is supernatural. sci-fi was able to account for luke's emasculation and the narrative remained nuanced enough to not push him into a feminine role, one was created for him but in the mid-2000s horror that is supernatural, that nuance does not exist; this horror is inherently prejudice in a way that cannot account for the nuance in sam's masculinity. he misses being luke skywalker by a gap the size of a sewing needle and falls into the role of leia skywalker. for what it's worth i am beating and will continue to beat this horse (the patriarchal structure allegory) dead.

(also i was talking about this in some tags earlier but sam also seems to adopt misogyny or uses misogynist quips as a defense mechanism for proving the masculinity that's constantly being questioned by the narrative. he shuns the role of scully, not because of scully herself but because of the fact that he's labeled as scully by dean)

[escapismsworld]

Let us not forget that this body type was the blueprint in art 🗣️

They had bellies, they had rolls, they had thighs.

1. Allegory of Victory by Louis Le Nain (1635)

2. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1480s)

3. Bathsheba at Her Bath by Rembrandt (1654)

4. Venus with a Mirror by Titian (1555)

5. Diana and Actaeon by Guiseppe Cesari (1602)

6. Bathsheba by Artemisia Gentileschi (1645)

7. Venus and Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens (1635)

8. The Judgement of Paris by Peter Paul Rubens (1636)

9. Venus and the Lute Player by Titian (1560)

10. The Combat of Ares and Athena by Jacques Louis David (1771)

[random-brushstrokes]

Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (French, 1836 - 1912) - An Allegory of Victory

[braincake666]

Batman Beyond does not get the credit it deserves for how respectfully and realistically they portrayed a lot of the issues they touched on, especially for a show that came out in 2000.

Babel portrayed someone going deaf and resenting their reliance on hearing aids to fully perceive the world. Spellbound showed a high school counselor exploiting students by getting them hooked on drugs. The Winning Edge has a coach pushing his athletes into doing steroids because he only sees them as pawns for victory. In Disappearing Inque and Eggbaby the main antagonist was explicitly abusive toward their henchmen.

And don’t even get me started on THAT scene in Black Out that was a pretty obvious assault allegory. A depiction of an attractive woman restraining, kissing, and then physically forcing her body down the throat of a teenage boy, leaving him dry heaving and coughing up the liquid she left behind? Being shown as a horrific and disgusting and traumatic experience?! In THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND?!

[pipiteer]

charles leclerc (glenn dunbar, 2024) // an allegory of victory (jules joseph lefebvre, 1836-1911)

(charles x art, 36/?)

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Victory

Artist: Mathieu Le Nain (French, 1607–1677)

Date: circa 1635

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France