#danaïdes

[theogonyofbeauty]

King Pelasgus refuses to give the Danaids to the herald of Egypt.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Jan Frans De Boever - Les danaïdes.

[hermesmoly]

Clytemnestra, Medea, and Oenone in the afterlife meet up and become a support group of husband killers and/or bad mothers. Also the Danaïdes attend their meetings

[galusandmalus]

Oh, hey, the daniads are winged in this in the underworld with Sisyphus, who I imagine must be happy. neat

huh its kinda odd that they are given wings in the underworld. Maybe they were winged before? being able to fly must make their job alot easier.

[oliviaalexandraamores]

"The Danaïdes" by John William Waterhouse

[philoursmars]

Marseille, début janvier. Cours Joseph Thierry, un superbe hall Art Déco dissimulé derrière une belle porte en métal.

Non loin au Square Stalingrad, un petit marché au bord de la Fontaine des Danaïdes avec une estafette servant de fleuristerie. La dernière, à proximité, est dans la Rue des Héros.

[my-burnt-city]

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50p says there's still a wee pile of red threads under that one mat because no one ever thought to tell stage management that's where omar luba was stashing them

[jw-waterhouse]

(The) Danaïdes (1904/1906), by J.W. Waterhouse 

Women and water somehow intrigued Waterhouse so it is no surprise that he painted the Danaïdes. These 50 daughters of King Danaus were forced to marry the 50 sons of his rival King Aegyptus with the task to kill them in their wedding night.  After the killings, the women were sentenced to death and in the underworld they were condemned to fill a large jar with a big hole in it.  Only one daughter refused to assassinate her husband because she truly loved him and this couple started the dynasty of the new rulers of Argos.

The first shown painting is regarded as a study of the second one that was completed two years later.  Being only discovered in 1989, it is nevertheless a painting in its full right. The later version was sold to the magnate James Murray and ended up in the Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1927.