Atlas and the Hesperides (c. 1922-1925) by John Singer Sargent (American. 1856 – 1925), oil on canvas, diameter: 120 in (304.8 cm), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Atlas and the Hesperides (c. 1922-1925) by John Singer Sargent (American. 1856 – 1925), oil on canvas, diameter: 120 in (304.8 cm), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
I love this vase of Perseus receiving the tools he needed for his quest from the nymphs, he looks so cute and polite. Athena is behind him and not wearing armor which reminds me of how in the Iliad she wears regular feminine clothes when she’s not in battle.
Really loved to see Atlas dressed up
Here the other half of the vase painting:
Attic red figure bell krater, ca. 425-376 BC.
Athena, Herakles with his ridiculous little boat Helios' boat, Atlas, Hesperis (one o the Hesperides or their mother), dragon Ladon and Hermes.
A condensation of the myth of Heracles in the lands of what is now the Atlas Mountains. Heracles needed Atlas to pick apples from the garden of the Hesperides, he deceived him in many ways and succeeded.
Why everyone in this painting is so diva? Even the snake is a diva.
Don't know how to explain how I love Atlas, there is no reason more than being dad of Calypso and in some versions of the Hesperides, I just love nymphs.
And just because some apple trees (imagining this at the Garden of the Hesperides):
Wait a sec is Atlas touching Ouranos butt?😀
My brain adores the idea that the daughters of Lord Hesperus the Evening Star are the beautiful sunset nymphs that protect the golden (forbidden) fruit of immortality.
“ The Hesperides were entrusted with the care of the tree of the golden apples which was had been presented to the goddess Hera by Gaia (the Earth) on her wedding day. They were assisted by a hundred-headed guardian-Drakon (Dragon). The three nymphs and their glowing, golden apples were regarded as the source of the golden light of sunset.”
It’s so cool when myths reaffirm little ideas like this. This is all upg but it just makes so much sense in my mind that the daughters of Lucifer are the nymphs who keep forbidden fruit, accompanied by a hundred headed dragon of all things. It perfectly reflects astral experiences I’ve had with Lucifer, the Garden of the Hesperides feels like a place I frequent often.
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925, American) ~ Sketch for Atlas and the Hesperides, 1922-24
[Source: mfa.org]
Do you have any ideas for traits (personality and looks) and powers, a child of one of the Hesperides could have? <3
Oh hey, Alto! Back on the Child of Hesperides workshop again, are we? Or is it a new child of Hesperides character? 🤔
I mentioned some stuff in this last ask you sent for a child of Hesperides: [LINK] but I'll go over some more details yeah. None of this is hard headcanons for me since these are just ideas after all, and the Hesperides are not as detailed in their lore so its hard to figure out definitively.
Anyways, let's start shall we!
The animalistic and raw condition Heracles was in when he reached the Hesperides in Argonautica was soooo haughty! (Heracles's Grief, an analysis)
I gotta say that I was definitely in for Medea's descend to madness from her unnaturally strong passion for Jason and how that occurred to be the very essence of the story but I think the scenes of Heracles's raw fury, sadness and anger were apparent to the book! The rawest scene I had perceived though in regards to the hero's deep condition of torment by his labors, something that was not so often described by other mythographers who mostly speak on his human weakness and usually perceive his great strength during those said labors but Apollonius gives us one of the rawest perspectives in regards to his human nature and how even he can be taken over by fatigue, hunger or thirst. In the final book of Argonautica we seem to see a different Heracles; taken over by fatigue and thirst after a long march of survival in the wilderness of the Libiyan desert in a shape more of an animal than of a human; having the lion's skin as his only true protection from the scorching sun, Heracles practically crawled to the Hesperides garden, shooting the dragon that guarded it with his arrows and then in his pursue of water he hit with his foot a rock to the side of the lake Tritonis and found water underneath. This batted and absolutely taken over image of Heracles seems to me directly linked to his grief as perceived in the very first book of Argonautica where he finds out on Hylas's demise. And let me try and explain why
First and foremost his grief in the first book of Argonautica was arguably one of the most characteristic scenes in the entire book and daresay scarred the first book of Argonautica and kinda was a plot starter for the whole thing:
So he spoke (Polyphemus) and his (Heracles's) salty sweat ran in abundance down his temples while deep in his guts, black blood would be boiling in anger. Furious he threw the fir tree down and he ran down the path, as fast as his feet could carry him. And just like a bull, stung by a horsefly abandons the meadows and the plains and doesn't care for the herder or his herd, tramples over the street, sometimes unstoppable, sometimes standing and raises his wide neck to the air to bellow loudly, taken over by madness: similarly he was in a frenzy while running constantly and when his breath was cut off by fatigue he would release woeful cries as far as he could
(Translation by me)
Honestly guys the comparison of Heracles to a maddened bull (and anyone who has seen videos of charging bulls know how terrifying of a sight that is and how the animals pay no heed about anything or anyone in their way when they are like this), showing how he has lost most of his humanity in his fury and madness and he would stop only to call as far as he could for Hylas to reply, honestly you do not get such a raw representation of pain ever since you saw Achilles mourning Patroclus. There is nothing human in the way Heracles mourns! He is the bull, as Apollonius says, maddened and trampling anything in his path! All he sees is the goal of saving Hylas even if he knows deep down that it is hopeless.
My designs of some sky gods. Had a lot of fun with these, weirdly proud of Astraeus’s planets 😅