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Galatea is an interactive fiction video game by Emily Short featuring a modern rendition of the Greek myth of Galatea, the sculpture of a woman that gained life. It took "Best of Show" in the 2000 IF Art Show [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and won a XYZZY Award for Best Non-Player Character .
Pygmalion and Galatea, an Original Mythological Comedy is a blank verse play by W. S. Gilbert in three acts based on the Pygmalion story. It opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 9 December 1871 and ran for a very successful 184 performances. [ 1 ]
Pygmalion by Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1786, Musée National du Château et des Trianons Miniature from a 14th-century manuscript of Pygmalion working on his sculpture. The story has been the subject of notable paintings by Agnolo Bronzino, Jean-Léon Gérôme (Pygmalion and Galatea), Honoré Daumier, Edward Burne-Jones (four major works from ...
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In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871.
Pygmalion and Galatea, 1871 play by W. S. Gilbert; Galatea 2.2, 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers; Galatea is the name of the main flagship in the 1998 PC game Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War; Galatea is the name of the gynoid in the 1999 film Bicentennial Man. Galatea, a 2000 interactive fiction video game
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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