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The Fall of Phaeton is a painting by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, featuring the ancient Greek myth of Phaeton (Phaethon), a recurring theme in visual arts. Rubens chose to depict the myth at the height of its action, with the thunderbolts hurled by Zeus to the right.
In one of the earliest surviving artistic attestations of the myth, a cast taken from an Arretine mould now housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [16] Phaethon is shown falling from the car, while Helios with a spare horse (as Euripides alone described) by his side has caught two horses and is preparing to catch the other two.
In 2016, Taffety Punk Theatre premiered Michael Milligan's play "Phaeton" in Washington, DC. [81] In 2019, Carl Rütti set to music an early modern interpretation of Sebastian Brant's Phaethon story, which equates the fall of Phaethon with a solar eclipse, but has Phaethon survive and return triumphant. Two versions exist for male choir and ...
The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1604/1605, probably reworked c. 1606/1608, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Rubens travelled to Spain on a diplomatic mission in 1603, delivering gifts from the Gonzagas to the court of Philip III. [22] While there, he studied the extensive collections of Raphael and Titian that had been collected by Philip II. [23]
The Fall of Phaeton above is one example of Ruben’s masterful composition on a large scale... 98.4 × 131.2 cm (38.7 × 51.7 in) - is not much of a large scale. Hafspajen 13:02, 14 April 2014 (UTC) All of the sources give 98.4 * 131.2 . I don't think Empty Easel is a site to rely on.
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The Prado attributes a work in its collection depicting the Fall of Phaeton to van Eyck. This is a painting from the series of paintings inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses made by various Antwerp artists after designs by Peter Paul Rubens for the King of Spain's hunting lodge. [6]
The Battle of the 300 Champions, known since Herodotus' day as the Battle of the Champions, was fought in roughly 546 BC between Argos and Sparta.Rather than commit full armies both sides agreed to pitting 300 of their best men against each other.