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In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory alabaster.Post-classical sources name her Galatea.. According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". [1]
Falconet's 1763 sculpture Pygmalion and Galatea (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore). Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] is the post-antiquity name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory alabaster by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life in Greek mythology.
Pygmalion and Galatea (French: Pygmalion et Galatée) is an 1890 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. [1] The motif is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses and depicts the sculptor Pygmalion kissing his statue Galatea at the moment the goddess Aphrodite brings her to life.
Left: Detail showing Pygmalion and Galatea in the background of The Artist and His Model. Right: detail showing a different Pygmalion and Galatea in the background of Working in Marble . The doppelgängers and visual puns are complex, because the Pygmalion paintings in the two backgrounds are similar but not identical.
The most famous of these paintings titled Pygmalion and Galatea is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; it shows the sculptor and his living statue from the rear. A variation (in private hands) shows them from the front.
Cleveland Museum of Art 23 x 12 x 15 More images: Andromeda: 1889 Bronze More images: Pygmalion and Galatea [49] 1889 Marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 97.2 x 88.9 x 76.2 More images: Cybele: 1889 to 1890 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 160 × 79 × 120 More images: She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife [50] 1889 to 1890 ...
Pygmalion and Galatea are two characters from Greco-Roman mythology. Pygmalion and Galatea may also refer to: Pygmalion and Galatea, a play by W. S. Gilbert; Pygmalion and the Image series, a series of paintings by Edward Burne-Jones; Pygmalion and Galatea (Gérôme painting), a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Pygmalion and Galatea is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet. It represents the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea as told by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The figures Pygmalion and Galatea are shown with Cupid, the god of desire. Girodet began the work in 1813, but it took him six years to complete. [1] [1]