#john flaxman

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Achilles contending with the Rivers. By John Flaxman.

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the messenger goddess iris, colored by me, engraving/illustration by john flaxman

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Briseis taken

— John Flaxman

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WE SHALL BE MONSTERS

Saptajit Banerjee What does it mean to be human? // 스위트홈 Sweet Home (2020-2024) dir. Jang Young-woo; Lee Eung-bok; Park So-hyun // Victoria Schwab Vicious // Melissa Broder Problem Area from "Last Sext" // Clarice Lispector The Hour of the Star // 스위트홈 Sweet Home (2020-2024) dir. Jang Young-woo; Lee Eung-bok; Park So-hyun // Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // George Seferis Collected Poems 1924-1955 // 스위트 홈 Sweet Home (2017-2020) cr. Kim Carnby & Hwang Young-chan // Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov // Frank Bidart Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 // Florence + the Machine Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) // 스위트홈 Sweet Home (2020-2024) dir. Jang Young-woo; Lee Eung-bok; Park So-hyun // John Flaxman Scylla

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Diomedes Casting His Spear Against Ares. By John Flaxman.

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Shield of Achilles by Philip Rundell, originally modeled and cast in plaster by John Flaxman

English, 1821-1822

Silver-gilt convex shield

Royal Collection Trust (acquired by George IV and displayed at his coronation banquet)

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Leukothea, the Anemoi and Odysseus 5th Rhapsode by John Flaxman After having a good night out there with the gals and devouring a full on ramen menu, I returned home and went to Instagram to unravel a little, but to my surprise, Fate had other plans. It first sent this reel that was about some comparisons between the Odyssey Spanish translations but, at the end. There was this image:

And that style was absolutely from an english fella: JOHN FLAXMAN. So of course, I knew the image was incomplete as this man adores doing wide panels, so I went to my lovely Ino lover, @laiapolypharmakos

After a small rage session, she gave me the full template she already has:

Now that I had the material and with a spur of creativity I started choosing colours and doing some stuff. First of all I closed the ribbon into a veil and erased Zephyros' beard as it was so strange (like small cones instead of a proper like Odysseus'). After that I started getting sources and inspirations for her...to end up finding that there is a severe lack of Ino/Leukothea content out there. So...I went down the mythographic route, checking the stories themselves. I am quite grateful for this drawing as it has few people in it, just Ino, Odysseus and the four Anemoi that go in tandem. Talking about Characters, let's meet our figures:

Anemoi (Boreas, Zephyros, Notos and Euros)

Sons of Eos and Astraeos, I did not give them too much thought, basing them on Laia's take of them

Leukothea/Ino, daughter of Kadmos.

The star of the show, lighting the dark in which our hero stays. Leukothea. She was a mortal, Ino, before turning into a divine being alongside her son through the Boetian king Athamas, Melikertes; now Palaimon, guardian of ships. She is the reason as to why we have the Argonauticas and the Golden Fleece (Khrysomalos) in the first place! For context, Athamas, a king of Boetia wed Nephele, goddess of clouds, and had Phrixos and Helle. After some shenanigans, Athamas marries Ino, daughter of Kadmos (we are not sure of the reasons as to why they are marrying) and have two sons: Learkhos and Melikertes. After this point, they are quite alright but Ino, starts to worry that neither of her sons will get the throne. Afterall she is the second wife and their sons the seconds after Phrixos (already a teenager) and Helle (which can continue the line).in the succesion line. Anyways, Ino plots and we end up with half the city of Orchomenus starving and a "seer's notice" that we have to sacrifice the eldest prince and princess. Stuff happens and Phrixos and Helle disappear from the map. All cute no? WRONG. After caring and nursing a baby Dionysus, Athamas is turned mad by Hera for caring about the infant god. Athamas kills Learkhos in a quite a gruesome way in Nonnus of Panopolis' account. (Dionysiaca, 10) With the death of her oldest son she takes Melikertes with her and both jump at Delphi to the watery depths and some olympian turns them into deities (Aphrodite, Poseidon and Dionysus depending on the source) Anyways this all what she entails. Now, for the drawing. - Her hair is dark, specifically "Kyaneos" By Nonnu's account. Now we are entering into artistic liberties. For me, Kyaneos does not mean "cyan or blue" but rather deep and dark colours whose tonality veers towards cold, instead of warm and is not yet "Melas" (Black). Reason why she has this hair with small blue highlights. - She is daughter of Kadmos and this mean, Phoenician roots which I really played with and this shows in the veil itself!. The hard part of the ribbon is dyed with hyacinth blue (Hyakinthos) which is also related with Tyrian purple as both were Phoenician top tier manufactures. But, I wanted to add some divine whimsy here with the main colour: Turqouise. Turquoise is one of the earliest gems to be used by humanity and the closest ones to the Aegean where at the Sinai Peninsula. These turqouise have the property of being greener than Iranian turqouises which are the standard and veer to sky blue rocks. (Nora Abdel-Hamid Shalaby, 2016)

This headcanon is from @laiapolypharmakos and is so cute, so much so I had to do it. Meanwhile the pattern of the veil is based on this picture while the white spots, are in this case: PEARLS.

Pearls in the Ancient Mediterranean could only be obtain by three ways: Freshwater mussels, Pinna nobilis and other mussels or imported from the Indian Ocean (Margathifera spp.) Either way the only colour, pearls could have ranged from pink to yellow.

Odysseus, son of Laertes.

Much enduring, much suffering, etc... We all know the drill but in this case he has left Ogygia, and is seeing how a waterbird just turned into a goddess while hearing her speech. For his design we have a lot of stuff going on: - For starters, Odysseus himself. He is dark blonde haired and dark bearded (Xanthos of hair and Kuaneos of beard) as based on my headcanons. (for me, xanthos means bright or sparkly so that's another creative liberty). But, something I surely don't see as often, are the tan lines. Yes, tan lines.

Clothing.

He is wearing a purple pileus (status) and himation, but a special one. Weaved by Kalypso, which @laiapolypharmakos and I, plot down in North African islands, it is inspired by the Amazighs! The Amazighs are a group of people hailing from the area before 10 000 BC! They are insanely ancient and have been there since ever. And they are quite fond of the woad and indigo dyes! Which I used on the himation while the orange hem is based on the traditional patterns some seem to wear.

Meanwhile the himation's pattern are inherently Mykenean, from a fresco of the Palace of Tyrinis, but it was too pretty to dismiss hehehe

And basically, the rest: the sea is in a storm so it's black and the mast is without barnish. Meanwhile my interpretations of the gods in the darkness is that they more or less glow and that's why they are brighter. Thanks so much for reading all this and hope you like it!

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Late Christmas gifts for moots

A Diomedes centered post but let’s go by parts: first start with the presentation of this man and Dauinian wife for number 1 fan @venomspecs 😆, then for great souled Tydeus for his biggest obsessed @herb-on-a-stick😄 and Diomedes for @thewingedgoat 😁.

tw blood really

First presenting Diomedes and Euippe🥰🥰:

I would feel bad not mentioning Euppie as a Daunian😭😭😭

Secondly, presenting Tydeus in Aeschylus' oath in the play Seven Against Thebes:

Seven warriors, fierce regiment-commanders, slaughtered a bull over a black shield, and then touching the bull's gore with their hands they swore an oath by Ares, by Enyo, and by Rout who delights in blood, that either they will level the city and sack the Cadmeans' town by force, or will in death smear this soil with their blood.

This felt so wrong, I want shorty Tydeus🤣

Third Diomedes Aristeia:

Protected by Minerva, Diomedes wounds the god Mars

Had lots of fun paiting Ares😍

Some artistic justifications:

The text was really random and a perfect to see different coloured and sized, also didn’t really like the texts mentioning Euippe. Had lots of fun but the nib and the ink betrayed me in the u😭😭.

Seven against Thebes:

In the Aeschylus play is described the shield of Tydeus as “a well-crafted sky, ablaze with stars, and the brightness of the full moon shining in the center of the shield, the moon that is the most revered of the stars, the eye of night.” So night blue stars and moon white.

Is described the shield of Hippomedont:  the symbol is Typhon, spitting out of his fire-breathing mouth a dark, thick smoke, the darting sister of fire. And the rim of the hollow-bellied shield is fastened all around with snaky braids. So flames and smoke for Typhon

And also the shield of Parthenopaeus is described as bronze-forged with the Sphinx (LOL)

For the rest of the armours I went feral and put a lot of colours in them I loved so much (I refrained from painting Polynices' malliot purple, @aaronofithaca05 knows)

Diomedes aristeia:

I painted brown-haired Tydeus so brown haired Diomdes as well

Athena is a weaver and very coquette imo so she stiled Zeus tunic with the aegis turquoise. I love scarlet could help it.

Love the position of ares and also the colours I selected also the white points are pearls in allusion to Aphrodite 😁

The spears are made from ash tree as Homer instits on describing them 

The helmet's plumage is white, as suggested by @jamescartoon

I painted the car white and added the details it already had in the Austrian style LOL.

AAAAAAAAH GUYYYYYS HOPE YOU LIKE IT🤩🤩🤩🤩