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Irene Stella Rolph Langdale (1880 – April 14, 1976) was an English and Canadian artist. She was commonly referred to as Stella Langdale.. She sketched worked in charcoal but also used oils, watercolour, pastels and etching techniques especially aquatint in her work.
Hades, Supergiant's fourth game, is an action roguelike set in Greek mythology with the main character Zagreus attempting to flee the Underworld.For the game, Zee said she was inspired by the work of comics artist Mike Mignola and Fred Taylor, a 19th-century poster artist. [14]
Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Thus Spake Zarathustra) is the oil painting cycle by Lena Hades painted from 1995 to 1997 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel of the same name. The painter created her first painting in December 1995 in Moscow.
Greek art, especially sculpture, continued to enjoy an enormous reputation, and studying and copying it was a large part of the training of artists, until the downfall of Academic art in the late 19th century. During this period, the actual known corpus of Greek art, and to a lesser extent architecture, has greatly expanded.
The drawing is related to the etching B138 : Lying Naked Woman: c. 1632: Black and white chalk on paper: 19.5 x 23.4 cm: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: The drawing is related to the painting W130 : Old Man Leaning on a Stick: 1632–1635: Pen and brown ink: 13.5 x 7.8 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The drawing is related to the etching ...
Hades and Cerberus, in Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888. Hades, as the god of the dead, was a fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to meet him, they were reluctant to swear oaths in his name, and averted their faces when sacrificing to him. Since to many, simply to say the word "Hades" was frightening, euphemisms were pressed ...
At the gates of Hades, Orpheus turns around to view his beloved wife and, in doing so, loses her to the underworld (Metamorphoses 10.40-63). The rape of Europa: In the guise of a beautiful white bull, Jupiter abducts Europa to Crete (Metamorphoses 2.846-875). Hero and Leander: Hero swims across the Hellespont to join his lover. Cupid is shown ...
In the 19th century, Realism art movement painters such as Gustave Courbet were not especially noted for fully precise and careful depiction of visual appearances; in Courbet's time that was more often a characteristic of academic painting, which very often depicted with great skill and care scenes that were contrived and artificial, or ...