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hildegardavon

Chauncey Bradley Ives, 1810-1894

Undine rising from the water, n/d, marble, on a rouge marble pedestal, 26.37x79.38 cm

Private Collection

coldraindropsss-deactivated2025

The Return of Persephone🌾🍂🌼

hildegardavon

Ulpiano Checa Sanz, 1860-1916

The rape of Proserpina, n/d, oil on canvas, 165x101 cm

Private Collection

spiritusloci

Happy Spring Equinox!

Persephone returning from the underworld to usher in Spring.

eleonorpiteira

Tragedy of Spring, a re-imagination of the myth of Hades and Persephone

Gouache on hot press watercolour paper, ~14,8 x 21 cm

A little personal victory, even though I could probably do better in digital… (the understated pleasure of being able to hold your work on your hands though! 😊)

hildegardavon

Charles William Mitchell, 1854-1903

The Flight of Boreas with Oreithyia, 1893, oil on canvas, 290x200 cm

Blyth Library, Inv.PCF1

peaceinthestorm

Charles Louis Hinton (1869-1950, American) ~ A Summer Shower, 1898

[Source: bronxvillehistoricalconservancy.org]

fordarkmornings

Arthur Drummond (British, 1871-1951)

The Battle of Flowers

flowerytale

Jules-Cyrille Cavé (1859–1946), Girl with a Bouquet of Daisies (detail)

gemma-antiqua

Ancient Greek silver tetradrachm from Syracuse, Sicily depicting the goddess Persephone, dated to 310-305 BCE. Minted during the reign of Agathokles. Currently located at MFA Boston.

soft-lovely

some things are always the same

shisasan

“In Bloom”, from “Daughters”, 2017 Ph. Elena Helfrecht

antoniettabrandeisova

The Mithridate Wine, c. 2009. Rubik Kocharian (Armenian, 1940-2019) 16“ x 20”, oil on linen,

davidluongart

The coming of spring and summer. 🌼🌸🌿🏛

“Then bright-coiffed Hecate came near to them, and often did she embrace the daughter of holy Demeter: and from that time the lady Hecate was minister and companion to Persephone…” -Hymn 2 to Demeter, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Ed.

For the fans of the stories revolved around Demeter, the Greek goddess of harvesting agriculture (crops, grains, food and the Earth‘s fertility) and her spring daughter, Persephone out there, along with her accompanying goddess, Hekate of the crossroads, night, moonlight, ghosts and witchcraft; here are some illustrations that were inspired from the style of Greek colonies in Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, and other simpler pottery variants from mainland Greece and its islands.