#Nikolaus Knüpfer

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Queen of Sheba Before Solomon (1640) by Nikolaus Knüpfer

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Hercules Obtaining the Girdle of Hippolyte

Artist: Nikolaus Knüpfer (Dutch, 1609-1655)

Date: 17th century

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Description

In Greek mythology, Hercules obtained the Girdle of Hippolyte as part of his ninth labor, which was to retrieve it for Admete, the daughter of King Eurystheus.

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Waiting for Solon: audience expectations in Herodotus

“Abstract: In this article, I focus not so much on what Solon actually says and does in his conversation with Croesus, but on what Herodotus’ readers, as well as Croesus himself, think  Solon might say or do. I argue that Herodotus uses analogous episodes, those of Gyges, Candaules, and Candaules’ wife, of Arion and Periander, and of Bias/Pittacus and Croesus, to shape readers’ expectations of Solon’s conversation with Croesus, but he thens ubverts many of those expectations within the conversation itself. In so doing, Herodotus emphasises the programmatic function for the Histories  of much of what Solon tells Croesus.”

[Conclusion] “This comparison between the Solon–Croesus episode and a select number of other, thematically important Herodotean episodes117 has shown that the former episode is special. If all or many of these episodes began as self-contained epideictic set pieces118 delivered by Herodotus before various live audiences, as seems likely, it was Herodotus’ challenge to weave these originally oral logoi into his written Histories . As evidence for just how crucial Solon’s conversation with Croesus in I.29-33 is to his work, Herodotus tries something with this episode that he never repeats in his work: with analogous episodes he builds up readers’ expectations about what both they as the external audience and Croesus as the internal audience will experience in this conversation (e.g., that Solon will seek patronage and that he will flatter Croesus), but then Herodotus subverts many of those expectations when Solon actually interacts with Croesus. The surprising, programmatic advice that Solon gives to Croesus in I.29-33, including the appropriate admonition to ‘consider the end of every matter’, is thrown into sharp relief by such subversion.”

David Branscome “Waiting for Solon: Audience Expectations in Herodotus”, Histos 9 (2015), 231-76

On line source with the whole paper https://www.academia.edu/25238127/Waiting_for_Solon_Audience_Expectations_in_Herodotus

Solon before Croesus about 1650–1652 by Nikolaus Knüpfer (Dutch, about 1603 - 1655). On view at Getty Center, Museum East Pavilion, Gallery E205

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Antoon Claessens, The Magic Girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons (c. 1580) 

Nikolaus Knüpfer, Hercules Obtaining the Girdle of Hippolyta (c. 1620) 

Eugene Delacroix, Hercules and Hippolyta (c. 1850) 

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Title: Venus and Cupid (r); Studies of a Woman (v.)

Artist: Nikolaus Knüpfer (German, Leipzig 1603–1655/60 Utrecht)

Date: 1620–60

The Met

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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Nicolaus Knupfer's Theseus Proposing to Phaedra, with footnotes #29

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Phaedra is a tragic play by Roman playwright Seneca. The play tells the story of Theseus’ wife Phaedra and her lust for her stepson, Hippolytus. However, Hippolytus despises women and wishes to remain pure, preferring to hunt and live in the woods. After Phaedra declares her love, Hippolytus lashes out and strikes to kill her for her lustful crime. Phaedra and her nurse accuse him of raping her…

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[maertyrer]

Nikolaus Knüpfer Salome receives the Head of St. John the Baptist

17th century

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Nicolaes Knüpfer - Hercules Obtaining the Girdle of Hyppolita