#polyphemus venus

[cray-cray-anime]

Yeeee vote for polyphemus venus babygirl!

Even tho less depresso more expresso sweeping hard (no hate to them, all leos beloved!)

Competitors and their art, as well as details for next week's mini tournament, are below the read more!

@polyphemus--venus art here! - @dykeraphael art here!

@less-depresso-more-espresso art here! - @writing-biting art here!

@justaturtleindisguise art here! - @aspen-washere art here!

@galaxitix art here!

Please give all art appreciating notes to the original posts!

Next week's mini tournament theme will be "Maskless girls"! All five main tournament art slots are taken, which leaves five open spots for new submissions! If you wish to participate please DM me with a link to the post with the art in question! Its first come first serve, unfortunately, and main tournament participants' submissions of other art will count as an open spot if someone else wants it, so please try to keep that in mind, especially if you're a later submitter!

[dionysism]

what are some of your favorite greek myth artworks? (doesn't have to be made in ancient greece i mean from any time)

oh i'm so thrilled you asked me this. buckle up though because i love way too many pieces just to pick a few so this may get long lol

starting with some john singer sargent paintings because man i love his mythos works i'm obsessed with his style i wish he painted odysseus

atlas and the hesperides by john singer sargent

perseus on pegasus slaying medusa & orestes pursued by the furies both by sargent

the judgement of paris & chiron and achilles by sargent

and also what my curent pfp is from:

apollo and the muses by sargent

circe by frederick s church

i posted this a few days ago actually but it is one my favs so i'll include it again here

the reconciliation of helen and paris after his defeat by menelaus by richard westall (right)

not sure where the variation from the left comes from, but i like it a lot too so i'm putting both

this is from ancient greece i'm pretty sure, but when i reverse image search it i don't get much. but i adore this pottery art her little puffed out cheeks she's so cute.... and why the dude to left side eyeing her!!! what a hater i bet she's playing a lovely tune!!

the judgement of paris by paul altherr

clytemnestra by john collier

bacchanalia, the battle of love by paul cezanne

bacchus, venus and ariadne by tintoretto

theseus and the minotaur by edward burne-jones

love theseus's cunty bob here and obsessed with how cute the minotaur looks they're playing hide and seek actually guys. they're best friends don't even worry

reunion of odysseus and telemachus by henri-lucien doucet

this one gets me so bad guys. just fucking look at them oh my godddd the way he;s holding him... the kiss to the cheek... i'm on the floor

the meeting of ulysses and penelope by john francis rigaud

odysseus and penelope reunited by newell convers wyeth

not a big fan of blonde odysseus but i do adore the penelope here and their pose

there's more i want to include but this is starting to get long so i'm going to add some statues and be done

this statue of orestes and electra. i admit i don't know who the artist is i just love the way they're holding each other and the fact that she's taller than him. and her short hair (which i know is because of mourning, they're infront of agamemnon's tomb, but also my butch elektra agenda... you get it)

apollo and daphne by bernini

i would kill to see this in person. like please gods if i could only see one more famous statue in person in my life time let it be this one

psyche revived by cupid's kiss by antonio canova

a basic answer but i mean come on. this statue is so fucking beautiful i might get it tattooed

sleeping hermaphroditus (artist unknown, mattress by bernini)

love this one the statue is actually from ancient rome while the mattress is from the 1600s

another one i've posted before but roman statue of odysseus escaping polyphemus' cave beneath a ram

hope this wasn't dreadfully long but thanks so much for this ask i love going into mythos art!! maybe i'll do a separate post for my favorite pottery arts made in ancient times at some point

[a-d-nox]

galatea, the beloved (asteroid 74)

Once upon a time, Polyphemus, the Cyclops from the journey of Odysseus, fell in love. Galatea was a lovely Nereid who was in love with Acis (whose story I previously told). Polyphemus learned of this when he saw the two together thusly crushed Acis with a boulder and breaking the heart of Galatea. IN MY OPINION, with this version in mind, Galatea could represent a) the types of lovers you attract, b) how those that love you tend to become jealous, and/or c) the terrible things that happen to those you love.

In another version, a sculptor named Pygmalion makes an ivory statue showcasing what he believes to be the ideal of womanhood and names it Galatea. He becomes so enamored by Galatea that he falls in love with her. Venus was enchanted by this and brought the statue of Galatea to life in answer to Pygmalion's prayers. The two then had a child named Paphos together. IN MY OPINION, with this version in mind, Galatea could represent a) beauty/attractiveness, b) what makes you someone's ideal, c) who you can enchant with you looks, d) where your love story attracts a lot of attention, and/or e) where people tend to be extremely hopeful of having you in their lives.

i encourage you to look into the aspects of galatea along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of galatea AND/OR add the other characters involved to see how they support or impede galatea!

OTHER RELATED ASTEROIDS/PLANETS: aci (6522), ovidius (2800), VENUS, and pygmalion (96189)!

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[les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques]

Chapter Four is posted!

Read here on AO3

Erik blinked, stupefied with anger; he held no fondness for the statue that once stood where Ottin’s trash now sat—another Venus, amusing as it was to see how quickly Paris ran through them. But where bland and inoffensive pornography once stood, now there was little more than a cheap passion play. Hideous Polyphemus, seconds away from smashing Acis beneath a rock in his jealousy. Beautiful Galatea on the brink of summoning up the tears that would save her human hobbyhorse and turn him into a river god, and oh—bravo—good for them.

It was bad enough he lacked a nose; it was worse that his face was somehow still being rubbed in that sort of sentimental horseshit, so close to his own home and after spending his work days elbows deep in it. Even when he tried his hardest to be like everyone else, the world seemed intent on reminding him of what he was. What love could only ever be for one such as him: a farce. A god-damned satyr’s play.

Fuck. How he hated it all—this treacle passing for public art, Paris herself for nurturing it, and himself for letting it affect him so deeply. It was one thing to bear the ridicule of men and the disgust of women, the endless double-takes and backwards glances that he tolerated every time he stepped out onto the street— that was one of the few dependable realities he had encountered wherever he went, sad as the thought was.

But to live in a city spilling over with monsters and lovers and somehow feel all the more lonely for it was another thing entirely.

[cray-cray-anime]

It giving slushie

guys what food is my art what does it taste like

[achillesreborn]

artist archive ; Arnold Böcklin (1827 - 1901)

Böcklin was born in Switzerland & during his life produced many beautiful paintings of religious events such as Jesus' crucifixion & the birth of Aphrodite, alongside country landscapes & portraits. his painting "self-portrait with death playing the fiddle (1872)" is undeniably his most popular work, but the rest of his collections are just as worthy of attention!

the shepherd's lament // idyll // self-portrait with death playing the fiddle // venus anadyomene // mourning under the cross // the elysian fields // will-o'-the-wisp // the sanctuary of hercules // odysseus and polyphemus

credit ;

[theoarfishexpress]

The Ancestors

Before divine selection could take place and the Tetrarch could begin, the deities had to choose what would inhabit their world. They would need to be adaptable enough to survive the ecological shock, and able to form a functional ecosystem from the beginning, but the rest was up to the deities’ own inscrutable choices. The majority of colonists were sourced from Earth’s Holocene epoch, but a handful of the founders were inexplicably from various other time periods. To allow more ecologically complex organisms to survive colonization, the cherry-picked settlers were introduced in successive waves, each supporting the next. The first assisted in the final steps of terraforming, the hardiest microbes starting or regulating such vital processes as oxygenation and the carbon cycle. Each wave that followed increased in size and diversity, until the Tetrarch’s founding menagerie was complete. This eclectic sample of Earth would give rise to every oddity making up the Tetrarch’s biosphere, the primordial ancestors from which all of its life descends. What follows is a list of these ancestors at the time that the Tetrarch was ready to begin, not including the myriad unicellular organisms and viruses whose descendants are also important. Plants and Algae -Brazilian Waterweed (Egeria densa) -Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) -Erect Prickly Pear (Opuntia stricta) -Grasses (~ 5 species) -Hooker’s Chives (Allium hookeri) -Leptosporangiate Ferns (~ 5 species) -Lithops (~ 5 species) -Mosses (~ 5 species) -Macroscopic Algae (~ 25 species, including Undaria and Acetabularia) -Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) -Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) -Turtlegrass (Thalassia testudinum) Vertebrates -African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis) -Banded Knifefish (Gymnotus carapo) -Conodonts (~ 5 species) -Hapalops sp. -Longspined Porcupinefish (Diodon holocanthus) -Pacific Viperfish (Chauliodus macouni) -Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera) -Star-Nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) Arthropods -Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) -Coccus Soft Scales (~ 5 species) -Copepods (~ 25 species) -Earwigs (~ 5 species) -Goose Barnacles (~ 5 species) -Hoverflies (~ 5 species) -Lacewings (~ 5 species) -Mites (~ 25 species) -Pseudoscorpions (~ 5 species) -Rainbow Mantis Shrimp (Pseudosquilla ciliata) -Springtails (~ 15 species) -Water Fleas (~ 5 species) Molluscs -Applesnails (~ 5 species) -Hippurites sp. -Sea Angels (~ 5 species) -Sea Butterflies (~ 5 species) -Venus Clams (~ 5 species) Other Animals -Arrow Worms (~ 5 species) -Brittle Stars (~ 5 species) -Clitellate Worms (~ 15 species, including leeches, earthworms, and naidids) -Demosponges (~ 10 species) -Dugesia Planarians (~ 5 species) -Nematodes (~ 300 species) -Rotifers (~ 5 species) -Tardigrades (~ 5 species) -Velvet Worms (~ 5 species) Fungi -Collared Earthstar (Geastrum triplex) -Lichens (~ 5 species) -Molds (~ 50 species)

[giuseppebonaccorso]

Nymphs, elves, gods and goats They wait, crammed behind misty wings. No clapperboard, just the look that you look To start the motionless dances. Wax statues wink at rocky mists, electric impetuses pop While Venus, smiling, files her nails. Pan runs and stops, He laughs, he cries, he screams to hear himself scream, and then, He slumbers, exhausted of himself. The endless days of mathematics shorten their robes, and a sassy group of flamenco dancers, Gasping at the onset of emotion, Is holed up in the useless hubbub of Echo. An immense spark on the tip of a hair Blinds Polyphemus frozen on the rocks, While the dreamy Ulysses, With victory on the bow, shamelessly sets out Into the arms of sublime damnation. Paradise, dusty, waits patiently for the clueless patrons.

[consistantly-changing]

[Image descriptions in order: a meme of a dog with long caramel and white coloured fur being hit with a large blast of air, so that its fur is blown back and its eyes are scrunched by the force. The text reads "Bad Sex Awards wasnt lying, that Sex scene can Bad.]

[An excerpt from a sex scene. It says "He looks long and lovingly at my wet vagina, saying 'a flower, a jungle flower,' as he caresses one lip and then the other, tweaks my clitoris with his tongue, and lifts his head to declaim rapturously: 'Someday I will paint this jungle flower, this Venus mantrap, but first I will subdue it.' And he plunges into me with his iron stalk, touching my womb again and again until I weep tears of joy. He cannot stop until he has made me come three times and I am quivering from my thighs to my toes and I plead for a rest, a breather, saying, 'Come, come, my love.' At last he ejaculates, shuddering and growling, making the noises of a seal baying at the Arctic moon.

'My slippery seal,' I say, 'my salty sweetheart, my kingdom of the three slipperies.'"]

[A comment by I0ve-for-mutts which says "I don't think this writer knows how a woman's body works".]

[The rest are excerpts from the bad sex awards. They say: the mound of her sex ... was disproportionately - but beautifully - high and rounded, overgrown with a luxuriant mop of long black pubic hair, not crinkly at all, but soft and feathery; and the vulva itself... was of unusual plumpness, almost spherical, like a large exotic mushroom in the fork of a tree, a little pleasure dome if ever I've seen one, where Alph the sacred river ran down to a tideless sea. No, not tideless. Her tides were convulsive, an ebb and flow that could take you very far, far back, before hurling you out, wildly and triumphantly, on a ribbed and windswept beach without end.]

[Her vulva was opposite my face. The small lips protruded slightly from the pale, domed flesh. This sex was watching at me, spying on me, like a Gorgon's head, like a motionless Cyclops whose single eye never blinks. Little by little this silent gaze penetrated me to the marrow. My breath sped up and I stretched out my hand to hide it: I no longer saw it, but it still saw me and stripped me bare (whereas I was already naked). If only I could still get hard, I thought, I could use my prick like a stake hardened in the fire, and blind this Polyphemus who made me Nobody. [...] I came in an immense splash of white light, as she cried out: 'What are you doing, what are you doing?' and I laughed out loud, sperm still gushing in huge spurts from my penis, jubilant, I bit deep into her vulva to swallow it whole, and my eyes finally opened, cleared, and saw everything.]

[oh the sheer ecstasy of lips and tongues on genitals, either simultaneously or in alternation, never will I tire of that silvery fluidity, my sex swimming in joy like a fish in water, my self freed of both self and other, the quivering sensation, the carnal pink palpitation that detaches you from all colour and all flesh, making you see only stars, constellations, milky ways, propelling you bodiless and soulless into undulating space where the undulating skies make your non-body undulate.]

[the flood in her loins washed morals, despair, and all other abstract assessments away in a cloud of some sort of divine cologne of his. Now his big generative jockey was inside her pelvic saddle, riding, riding, riding, and she was eagerly swallowing it swallowing it swallowing it with the saddle's own lips and maw - all this without a word. But then he began moaning.]

[He buried his face into Hannah's c**t like a wanderer who'd found water in the desert. She tasted like a hot biscuit flavoured with pee. She grabbed his scruff and pulled his face to hers. They kissed, and she took his cock - it felt as thick as a Louisville Slugger - and guided him in. When he exploded - and he exploded quickly - he felt - as if his heart had liquefied and then been shot out of him up through her vagina and uterus and her ovaries and up over her diaphragm and somehow down the vena cavity to her heart, his own now coating hers.]

[Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza's breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra's howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza's body except for the otherwise central zone.]

I’m reading bad sex awards finalists across the years

[ultimatebabygirlsupremebattle]

We now have our bracket!

On the left side, in order from top to bottom we have: @surohsopsisofclouds @yumeyumeappleo @crystallizabethine @gumy-shark @justaturtleindisguise @galaxitix @probably-not-a-rutabaga @newtmntfan @purpleleafsyt @gayest-squrrel @nom-noms-things @less-depresso-more-espresso @flaccidbonestm @terrapinnnn @chaoswithcausation @writing-biting

On the right side, in order from top to bottom we have: @lunartflare64 @avidlylivid @graphitehybrid @jae-art-x3 @dykeraphael @lavenders-artstuff @boy-icky @teenagemutanttransgenderturtles @shrugs-at-you @glitter-alienzzz @sewer-ratman @donnietheterrapin @frogandbird @mushtoons @polyphemus--venus @popcornkwantum @rizzonardo @squidsqwag @bugbrainboy

Is everybody ready to go? The first round - the preliminaries on the far right - will be posted in a few hours! From there we'll be alternating between left and right, so next week round one for the left side of the tournament will happen, and the week after will be round one for the rest of the right side along with the winners of the preliminaries! The polls will be posted every Tuesday at 5pm EST!

Its been a long month of planning and organising, but its finally time to get the main event going! I wish everyone the best! May the cutest babygirl win!

[romegreeceart]

Religion & mythology (tags)

Tag list of ancient deities, heroes, heroines, mythical beasts etc. Mostly from Greek, Roman and Etruscan world although a few gods from Egypt, Gallia and Germania are also included. Mostly pics. 

https://romegreeceart.tumblr.com/tagged/

A

Abudantia

Achilles

Agamemnon

Aequitas

Aeneas 

Aeneid 

Aion 

Aita (Etruscan god of underworld)

Altar

Amazons

Amphitrite

Andromache  

Andromeda

Anna Perenna

Antiope

Aphrodite 

Apis

Apollo

Ares

Argonauts

Ariadne

Aristaeus

Arval Brethren

Artemis

Asclepius

Athena

Athis

Atlas

Attis 

Augur  

B

Bacchus

Bal

Bast

Bastet

Baubo 

Bellerophon

Bellona 

Bona Dea 

Bonus Eventus

Briseis

C

Centaur

Cerberus

Ceres

Charon

Chimaera

Circe

Clytemnestra

Concordia

Cornucopia

Cumaean Sibyl

Cupid

Cupid and Psyche

Curse

Cybele

Cyclops

D

Daemons

Danae

Daphne

Deities

Demeter

Demigod

Diana

Dido of Carthage

Dionysus (1)

Dionysos (2)

Dioscuri

Dirce

Dragon

E

Early Christian art (1)

Early Christian art (2)

Eileithyia

Electra 

Eleusinian mysteries

Eos

Erinyes

Eros

Erotes

Euphrates (river god)

Europa

F

Faun

Festival 

Festival of Spes

Flamen

Flora

Fortuna

Fortuna Muliebris

G

Gaia

Galatea

Ganymedes

Garden of Hesperides

Genius

Gigantomachy

Glycon

God

Goddess

Gorgon

Greek religion

Griffin

H

Hades 

Hecate

Hector and Andromache  

Hector 1

Hector 2

Helen

Helios

Hera

Herakles

Hercules

Hermanubis 

Hermes

Herse

Hermaphroditus

Heroes of Trojan war 

Hilaritas

Honos

Horai

House of Atreus

Hydra

Hygieia

Hylas

Hymen

I

Icarus

Incense burner

Iphigenia

Isis

J

Janus

Jason

Juno

Jupiter 1 

Jupiter 2

K

Kassandra (Princess of Troy)

L

Lararium

Lares

Lasa

Leda

Leucothea

Libertas

Luna

M

Maenad

Magic

Magna Mater

Mars

Marsyas

Mater Matuta

Matrons (Germanic Mother goddesses)

Medea

Medusa

Melqart

Menvra

Mercurius

Metamorphosis

Metamorphoses

Minerva

Minor deity

Minotaur

Mithras 1

Mithras 2

Mnemosyne

Moirai

Muses

Mystery cult

Mysticism

Mythology

N

Narcissus

Nemean lion

Nemesis

Nemoralia

Neptunus

Nereid

Nike

Niobe

Nymphs

Nyx

O

Odysseus

Offering

Omphale

Ops

Oracle of Delphi

Oracle of Delphi 2

Orestes

Orion

Orpheus

Orphic

P

Pan

Paris

Pegasus

Persephone

Perseus

Phersipnei

Pluto

Polyphemus

Pontifex

Pontifex Maximus

Poseidon

Priapus

Priest

Priestess

Prometheus 

Pyramus and Thisbe

Pythian games

Q

Quirinus

R

Religion

Rite

Ritual

River God

Roma

Roman religion

S

Sacrifice

Salacia

Salus

Sanctuary

Saturnalia

Saturnus

Satyrs

Scylla

Sea centaur

Securitas

Selene

Sema Sancus

Shrine

Silen

Silenus

Sirens

Sol Invictus

Sons of Antiope

Sphinx

Summanus

Sylvanus

Syrian Gods 

T

Temple

Tethys

The Three Fates

Theseus

Thetis

Three Graces

Tinia

Titans

Tragic House of Cadmus

Treveris (city goddess of Trier) 

Triptolemus (Eleusinian mysteries)

Triton

Turan

Tyche

Typhon

U

Underworld

Uni 

V

Venus 

Venus de Milo

Venus Cloacina (Forum Romanum)

Vesta

Victoria 1

Victoria 2

Virtus

Votive offering 1

Votive offering 2

Vulcanus

W

Witchcraft

Z

Zephyrys

Zeus

[connoisseur-art]

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo

~Isabella d'Este~ Cartone per il Ritratto di Isabella d'Este

1500

Black and red chalk, yellow pastel chalk on paper

The Louvre Museum.

Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539)

Marquise of Mantua.

She was born to the Duke of Ferrara and his wife Eleanor of Naples in 1474, the oldest and favorite of their children. Her mother ensured that she received an excellent education, even by male standards of the day, which emphasized the classics, including Greek and Latin. However, she seems to have struggled more in learning to read Latin, and in adult life received additional lessons to help her reading skills. She was particularly fond of music, singing and dancing, and learned to play several instruments including the lute and harpsichord. Her taste in music was predominantly secular.

Isabella started to collect objets d’art soon after she moved to her palace in Mantua. With regard to paintings, she was foremost a collector who relied on the advice of others in the court, rather than a connoisseur in her own right. Surprisingly, her purchases had to be made from her own wealth, which was quite limited, and in times of hardship she resorted to pawning jewelry to raise funds. Her patronage concentrated mainly on music and sculpture. She was unusual for promoting women as singers, and placing them in choirs. Her literary sponsorship was limited: she seems to have enjoyed swashbuckling stories of the adventures of knights, such as those in Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, and was a faithful supporter of his work.

Her sponsorship and taste in paintings is largely reflected in the works which she commissioned for her private study, her famous studiolo, which thankfully have been well preserved as they passed to the French Kings, and most are now in the Louvre as a result. Combined with records in her copious correspondence and a crucial inventory, it has been possible to reconstruct this studiolo in detail. Her period of collecting covered the appointments of two court painters in Mantua: Andrea Mantegna until his death in 1506, thereafter Lorenzo Costa.

Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506)

Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1496-97),

oil on canvas, 159 x 192 cm,

The Louvre Museum, Paris.

This painting refers to the classical myth of the affair between Mars and Venus, the latter being married to Vulcan, who caught them in bed together and cast a fine net around them for the other gods to come and mock their adultery. The lovers are shown standing together on a flat-topped rock arch, as the Muses dance below. To the left of Mars’ feet is Venus’ child Cupid who is aiming his blowpipe at Vulcan’s genitals, as he works at his forge in the cave at the left. At the right is Mercury, messenger of the gods, with his caduceus and Pegasus the winged horse. At the far left is Apollo making music for the Muses on his lyre.

 It’s an unusual theme for a woman of the time to have chosen, although it has largely been interpreted with reference to a contemporary poem which seems less concerned with the underlying story of adultery exposed.

Andrea Mantegna (1431~1506),

Triumph of the Virtues (Pallas Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue) 1499~1502,

tempera and oil on canvas,

The Louvre Museum, Paris.

Pietro Perugino (1448–1523),

Combat of Love and Chastity (1503),

tempera on canvas,

The Louvre Museum, Paris.

 Its theme is literary, as laid down in the contract by Isabella’s court poet, and shows a fight between the personifications of Love and Chastity, which may have worked well in words but doesn’t translate into visual art at all well.

 It features a gamut of mythological figures in no particular order, including Apollo and Daphne, Jupiter and Europa, Polyphemus and Galatea, and Pluto and Proserpina – all couples in which the man abducted and/or raped the woman. In front are Pallas Athene about to kill Eros with a lance, and a more evenly matched fight between Diana with her bow and Venus, who is singeing the huntress with a burning brand. Isabella laid out strict instructions, for example requiring that Venus, who is traditionally shown naked, was clothed. Even the owl perched in the branches of the sacred olive tree at the left was prescribed in the commission. When Perugino didn’t follow these, she protested, and on completion she wrote that it should have been better finished to set alongside her Mantegna, and was clearly unimpressed. For this the artist was paid just 100 ducats.

Lorenzo Costa (1460–1535),

The Garden of the Peaceful Arts (The Crowning of a Female Poet) (1504-06), oil on canvas

The Louvre Museum, Paris.

Mantegna had originally been commissioned to paint this, but died before he could make much progress on it. Costa started from scratch, and under Isabella’s direction according to her poet’s literary theme produced this strange painting which is often known as an allegory of Isabella’s coronation, or construed as an account of Sappho’s career.

Lorenzo Costa (1460–1535) and Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506),

The Reign of Comus (1506-11),

tempera on canvas,

The Louvre Museum, Paris.

Another commission which Mantegna had started to work on just before he died was completed by Costa in 1511, The Reign of Comus, which again uses tempera for a complex composition. Comus, ruler of a land of bacchanalia, sits talking to a near-naked Venus in the left foreground. Just to the right of the centre foreground, Nicaea is lying unconscious through alcohol, against Dionysus (Bacchus), who got her into a stupor so that he could rape her.

 Under the arch is the unmistakable two-faced Janus with Hermes, apparently repelling potential newcomers to the bacchanal. In the centre is a small group of musicians, and various naked figures are cavorting in the waters behind.

References

~Alison Cole (2016) Italian Renaissance Court ~ Art, Pleasure and Power, Laurence King.

~Christine Shaw (2019) ~Isabella d’Este, A Renaissance Princess, Routledge.

[enchiridion-waning]

Mercury

Venus

Earth (Luna)

Mars (Phobos, Deimos)

Ceres

Jupiter (There are 79 known, only named listed: Métis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Gayanmede, Callisto, Themisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Dia, Carpo, Valetudo, Euporie, Thelxinoe, Euanthe, Helike, Orthosie, Locast, Praxidike, Harpalyke, Mneme, Hermippe, Thyon, Ananke, Herse, Aitne, Kale, Taygete, Chaldene, Erinome, Aoede, Kallichore, Kalyke, Carme, Callirrhoe, Eurydome, Pasithee, Kore, Cyllene, Eukelade, Pasophae, Hegemone, Arche, Isonoe, Sinope, Sponde, Autonoe, Megaclite)

Saturn (62 moons: Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Aegaeon, Mimas, Methone, Anthe, Pallene, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Polydeuces, Rhea ((one of my daughters is named after her)), Titan, Hyperion, Lapetus, Kiviuq, Ijiraq, Phoebe, Palliaq, Skathi, Albiorix, Bebhionn, Erriapus, Skoll, Siarnaq, Tarqeq, Greip, Hyrrokkin, Jarnsaxa, Tarvos, Mundilfari, Bergelmir, Narvi, Suttungir, Hati, Farbauti, Thrymr, Aegir, Bestla, Fenrir, Surtur, Kari, Ymir, Loge, Fornjot)

Uranus (27 known moons: Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda, Perdita, Puck, Mab, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret, Prospero, Setebos, Ferdinand)

Neptune (14 moons: Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Polyphemus, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe, Neso)

Pluto + Charon (Styx, Nyx, Kerberos, Hydra)

Quaoar (Weywot)

Makemake (1 unnamed moon)

Haumea (Namaka, Hi’iaka)

Sedna

Eris (Dysnomia)

The Goblin (Chadwick, Trujillo)

Farout

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"Psyche Received on Olympus" by Raphael I went to this beautiful villa tucked away in Trastevere one gorgeous, spring morning. I learned about it in my Italian Renaissance class and I had been dying to see it. In my class I learned that the villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Italian banker. He was so wealthy that, as the story goes, he would throw his silver plates into the river at dinner parties to show his extravagant wealth (only later would his servants fish out these plates from the river with nets). The villa was built as his country home and as a private retreat for his family. Chigi had a mistress named Imperia and after she died he began a relationship with a woman named Francesca Ordeaschi. He had children with her and eventually would marry her to make his children legitimate. The Pope even baptized his children.

The ceiling frescos are part of the Loggia of Psyche (1517) by Raphael. A loggia is a room that is opened to the outdoors and supported by columns. Romans live much more in tune with nature. (When I was living in the convent the maid would always open my windows even when it was freezing outside!) The gardens outside the loggia would have been seen as a symbol of marriage and fertility.

The fresco above depicts Psyche being received on Olympus (if you couldn't tell from the title). The iconography and story connects to Chigi's own life. By marrying Agostino Chigi, Francesca Ordeaschi became "one of the gods," like Psyche who was mortal and married Cupid to become a goddess. The story of Cupid and Psyche comes from Ovid's Metamorphosis. Venus, Cupid's mother, was jealous of Psyche's beauty and out of this jealousy ordered her son Cupid to strike her with an arrow and make her fall in love with a hideous monster. However, upon seeing Psyche and her immense beauty, Cupid accidentally pricked himself and fell in love with her. Venus set up various tasks for Psyche to complete (which she succeeded at) until Jupiter finally put an end to it and Cupid and Psyche were married.

The fresco has classical connections as well. It looks very much like the Ara Pacis Augustae (9-13 BCE). I saw this in Rome as well! This was an altar of peace built by the Roman Emperor to support family values.

Detail from the "Ara Pacis Augustae" 9-13 BCE Below are more frescoes by Raphael and others found in the loggia.

"Venus and Jupiter" (1517-1518) by Raphael

"Venus on the Chariot Pulled by Doves" (1517-1518) by Raphael

"Mercury" (1517-1518) by Raphael

"Wedding Banquet of Cupid and Psyche" (1517-1518) by Raphael

"Venus, Ceres, and Juno" (1517) by Giovanni da Udine

"Cupid and the Three Graces" (1517-1518) by Raphael The thing I was most excited to see at the Villa Farnesina though was the Sala di Galatea, or room of Galatea. Raphael's Galatea was thought to be the ideal beauty during the Renaissance. Raphael took the best parts of each beautiful woman he knew to create her. Poliziano, a Renaissance poet, told the story of Galatea and Polyphemus. Galatea was a sea nymph who the ugly giant named Polyphemus was in love with. He would sing her love songs but she rejected his love.

"Galatea" (1513) by Raphael In the fresco, one can see the use of contrapposto (the use of opposites together to create balance). Also, with Polyphemus on the wall opposite her, there is a contrapposto in the dynamic of the room between femininity and masculinity.

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Competitors and their art, as well as details for next week's mini tournament, are below the read more!

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@justaturtleindisguise art here! - @aspen-washere art here!

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Next week's mini tournament theme will be "Maskless girls"! All five main tournament art slots are taken, which leaves five open spots for new submissions! If you wish to participate please DM me with a link to the post with the art in question! Its first come first serve, unfortunately, and main tournament participants' submissions of other art will count as an open spot if someone else wants it, so please try to keep that in mind, especially if you're a later submitter!