#cave painters

[lepetitdragonvert]

Ulysses Fleeing The Cave of Polyphemus

1812

Artist : Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853)

[mythologypaintings]

Thetis Takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron

Artist: Pompeo Batoni Girolamo (Italian, 1708–1787)

Date: 1768-1770

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

About this painting

This is the only known painting on this subject. The Russian Empress Catherine II commissioned the painting from Batoni and herself selected the theme, probably finding it in Giovanni Boccaccio's De Genealogia Deorum (The Genealogy of the Gods). In the 18th century scenes from the story of Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, were much in fashion. Achilles's mother, the goddess Thetis, gave him over to be brought up by the centaur Chiron. Learning that her son must die in the war against the Trojans she decided to deceive fate and removed the sleeping Achilles from Chiron, fleeing in a shell to the protection of King Lycomedes on the Island of Scyros. Forming the basis of Batoni's strict composition are two arches, the niche in the cave of Chiron with its herm, and the opening in the rocks, beyond which spreads the sea. The nymphs carefully carry the sleeping Achilles to the shell, while nearby, Thetis says farewell to Chiron. The ideal proportions of the figures recall ancient statues. The pure resonant colours of the robes - blue, red, white and pink - are set off against the calm brownish-grey of the cliffs.

[hydralune]

thinking about all the 2 hour timers I set just so I could farm my rewards for maudlin dream...anyway I'm still laughing at this scene in alkaid's story

[tunanoodlesoup]

hi tumblr im back for the next however long until the brunt of my pressure fixation wears off before i go into hybenation again anyway hes silly and hes silly and btw hes silly and did i mention hes silly and i THEY HAVE SUCH A CHOKEHOLD ON ME FREE MEE PELASSEE and painter is me fr did you know that hes literally me if you even care

and the most unserious painter angst bc i gave up when i got to sebastian,, here everyone who needs their souls cleansed i guess LMAOOFS ive seen many artists be uninvited to pressure themed birthday parties....

[paullorenz]

I am a cave painter

Every color is an extension of the previous. There is no waste...there is only the future...

[galleryofart]

Temple, Fountain and Cave in Sezincote Park

Artist: Thomas Daniell (English, 1749–1840)

Date: 1819

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

[portrait-paintings]

Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton (c 1765-1815), as Circe

Artist: George Romney (English, 1734-1802)

Date: 1782

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, England

Description

Rectangular oil painting in portrait orientation depicting a female figure in full-length, dressed after the antique, seemingly striding forwards out of the canvas with her left arm raised, her head bowing slightly to engage the viewer. The sitter is Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815), shown as the Greek Mythological character 'Circe', who fed travellers on poisoned meat which would turn them into pigs, she is encountered in "The Odyssey". She is often, as here, shown carrying a wand or stick for driving the pigs to their sties. Circe stands in front of a rocky outcrop, or at the mouth of a cave. To her left there are the heads of two wolves emerging from the darkness behind her, in the distance, to Circe's right, there is a boat at anchor in a bay.

[artemlegere]

Brother Philippe's Geese

Artist: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)

Date: ca. 1736

Medium: Oil on copper

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Jean de La Fontaine’s Fables include the story of the widower Philippe, who adopts a hermit’s robes and retreats to a mountain cave where he and his son live free from temptation. Eventually, however, Philippe takes his son out into the world and they encounter a party of young women. When the youth asks about them, his father says they are “a party of geese.” “Father, I beg you, let us take one [with us].” Lancret indicated the women’s elevated social status by including the likely enslaved African servant who shades them with a parasol.

[finelythreadedsky]

every time i think about the play philoctetes i remember the chorus as being composed of nymphs rather than sailors. my brain just automatically puts women back in the text.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Bull, from cave of Altamira, Santander, Spain, c. 10,000 B.C.

Pablo Picasso, Plate 4, 'Bull’ series, 1945 (lithograph)

[arinewman7]

Queen Mab's Cave

J. M. W. Turner

1846

[strawberri-draws]

Art fights 🤺

[lightsaroundyourvanity]

premise: that peeta was also kind of faking it in the first games and fell in love with katniss over the books he was just a more brilliant actor than she ever was

[galleryofart]

The Burial of Atala

Artist: After Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767 - 1824)

Date: After 1808

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Description

Christian sentiment and interest in the Americas were at a high point in France in 1808 when Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson painted his version of Burial of Atala and captured both of these popular ideas. The Catholic Church and the French government had recently signed an agreement restoring power to the Church after the French Revolution of the previous two decades had taken it away. At the same time, Christian missionaries, colonial settlers, and explorers were sending their travel accounts back to France and most French people, who would never actually see the Americas, were fascinated by stories from this faraway place. This painting, full of Christian motifs, of the burial of a young girl mourned by her Native American beloved is based on a novella written by Franc¸ois Rene´ Chateaubriand, who had journeyed to North America in 1791.

In Chateaubriand’s fictional story set in in the 1700s in the American South (specifically the French-owned Louisiana Territory), the Christian girl Atala made a vow to her mother to remain celibate, and rather than break it for her beloved, a Native American Natchez man named Chactas, she killed herself. In Girodet’s composition, we see Atala’s corpse, sensually draped between the grieving Chactas and the priest who helped them escape a storm, Father Aubry. She is dressed in white, a color symbolizing innocence and purity in European cultures, with a crucifix clutched in her hands. Her pose and the setting in a cave reference common Christian iconography, like scenes of the Entombment and the Deposition that depict Christ after his death. Atala is depicted as saint-like, martyred for her virtue and faith. Chactas’s identity as a Native American is suggested by his comparatively dark complexion, lack of clothing, and long flowing hair, representing an imagined exotic savage in a missionary narrative about “saving” indigenous people with Christianity.

[neotibicen-linnei]

digital painting practice

[artemlegere]

Imogen Found in the Cave of Belarius

Artist: George Dawe (English, 1781-1829)

Date: Exhibited in 1809

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: TATE Britain

Description

George Dawe depicts a scene from Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline. Imogen – the heroine and daughter of Cymbeline, the ancient king of Britain – escapes court and disguises herself as a young man. Here, Dawe shows the moment when the character Belarius (left) and Imogen’s two long-lost brothers (right) discover her in a cave. They believe she is dead, but she has actually just drunk a sleeping potion. Dawe mainly painted portraits, but here ventures into ‘history painting’ (images of biblical, mythological, literary or historical subjects). This was regarded as the highest genre of painting at the time and indicates Dawe’s ambitions as an artist. With its high-minded literary theme and dramatic lighting, this painting was meant to stand out when it was first exhibited at the British Institution in 1809.