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Brooch - Dancing nymphs in a frame of bats ca. 1902-03.
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Brooch - Dancing nymphs in a frame of bats ca. 1902-03.
Jeweler: René Lalique
Sir Guyon with the Palmer Attending, Tempted by Phaedria to Land upon the Enchanted Islands
Artist: Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Date: 1849
Medium: Watercolor and bodycolor, with some gum arabic, over black chalk underdrawing
Collection: Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Faerie Queene, Book 2
In the boat to the left stand Sir Guyon and the palmer, a pilgrim holding a palm branch who has returned from the Holy Land. Phaedria stands in the boat to the right, gesturing across the Idle Lake to the Enchanted Isle on the right, replete with dancing nymphs glittering in the evening sun.
The subject is adapted from a passage in the Faerie Queene, a poem first published in 1590 by the English writer Edmund Spenser. In the poem, however, Phaedria refused, much against Sir Guyon's wishes, to take the palmer as well, and he was left behind on the bank. In Samuel Palmer's adaptation, the palmer is included, presumably intended as an autobiographical reference.
Allegory of Spring
Artist: Francesco de Mura (Italian, 1696-1782)
Date: 1759
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, United States
Description
The inspiration for this painting comes from the first stanzas of an ode by the ancient Roman poet Horace. The ode describes the renewal of Spring in terms of Greek and Roman myth: Winter to Spring: the west wind melts the frozen rancour, The windlass drags to sea the thirsty hull; Byre is no longer welcome to beast or fire to ploughman, The field removes the frost-cap from its skull. Venus of Cythera leads the dances under the hanging Moon and the linked line of Nymphs and Graces Beat the ground with measured feet while the busy Fire god Stokes his red-hot mills in volcanic places.
Dancing Nymphs
Blendon Reed Campbell, 1920s
Constant Montald (1862-1944, Belgian) ~ Dansende nimfen, 1898
[Source: fin-de-siecle-museum.be]
Grounds for Sculpture - August 20th 2018
“Dancing Nymphs“ by Paul Émile Chabas
Dancing nymphs in frosted glass