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Athena is a British art retailer and retail chain, which was founded in 1964.Today it sells fine art prints from a variety of UK artists. However it is best known for its iconic posters such as L'Enfant (a picture of a muscular man cradling a baby), The Lord of the Rings from 1976 by Jimmy Cauty, [1] the Tennis Girl poster from 1976 [2] and "Beyond City Limits", published in the 1990s.
L'enfant (also known as Man and Baby) [1] is a 1987 photographic poster depicting a shirtless male model (Adam Perry) holding a young baby. The image, conceived by Paul Rodriguez was photographed by Spencer Rowell and published in the 1980s by British company Athena Posters. [2]
Athena then negotiated a licence to distribute the image as a poster, [10] where from 1978 it achieved widespread distribution, selling over 2 million copies at £2 per poster. [1] [7] Although Athena went into administration in 1995, the picture remains a popular print. [citation needed]
Pallas Athena is a c. 1657 [1] oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt that belongs to the collection of Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. [ 2 ] A print of Pallas Athene in the 1659 parade for the marriage of Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau to John George II of Anhalt-Dessau is similar in pose and costume to this painting.
Athena also bears the gift of foresight, which she used to predict the future birth of Amadeus Cho and his eventual role as the Prince of Power, several millennia later, and is able to project images of such futures in thin air at will, [38] and is also capable of engaging in aerial combat when necessary, even after many months on Earth, as she ...
Heracles and Atlas, on a lekythos by the Athena Painter, c. 490–480 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Warrior with shield and spear in a hail of arrows, white-ground lekythos with black-figure scene, c. 475/550 BCE, Paris: Cabinet des médailles. The Athena Painter was an Attic black-figure vase