Jul 8, 2025
Atlas Supports the Heavens on His Shoulders by Bernard Picard (1731)
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Atlas Supports the Heavens on His Shoulders by Bernard Picard (1731)
Calais and Zetes are the two "wind brothers".
They were Argonauts and played a particularly vital role in the rescue of Phineus from the harpies.
I might be hallucinating right now, but apparently Bernard Picard (1673-1733), a french book illustrator, made a few depictions of mythological figures and fables from Ovid's Metamorphoses. And...
Bernard Picard, Memnon, King of Ethiopia and Son of Tithonus and Eos, c.1725
(2020)
Bernard Picard, Lapons Scandinavia (Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde representées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard: avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses), 1726.
Bernard Picart (1673-1733) - Red chalk, 37,1 x 47,3 cm. 1722.
Male nude, seated on a stone ledge, in a landscape.