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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]
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
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.
In Greek mythology, Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] was the name of the following figures: Galatea, a Nereid who loved the shepherd Acis, and was loved by the cyclops Polyphemus. [2] Galatea, the statue of a woman created by Pygmalion and brought to life by Aphrodite. [3]
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]
The Pygmalion myth had long been popular with theatrical illusionists. [3] Pygmalion and Galatea was the first film adaptation of the story; many others followed it in the silent era and beyond. [4] Méliès and Jehanne d'Alcy play the roles of Pygmalion and Galatea in the film. [5]
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
The Triumph of Galatea is a fresco completed around 1512 by the Italian painter Raphael for the Villa Farnesina in Rome. [1] The Farnesina was built for the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, one of the richest men of that age. The Farnese family later acquired and renamed the villa, smaller than the more ostentatious palazzo at the other side of ...