Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Depicted Confrontations - I

Antoine Gibelin-Esprit
Achilles battling the River Scamander
1770
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Jacques-Louis David
The Anger of Achilles
1819
oil on canvas
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Felice Boselli
Diana and Actaeon
ca. 1704
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Ignaz Elhafen
Diana and Callisto
ca. 1690
ivory relief
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon

Anonymous French Artist
Struggle of Titans
17th century
marble fragment
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Johann Michael Rottmayr
Jove casting Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants
ca. 1690-95
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Martin Johann Schmidt
Ulysses seizing Astyanax from Andromache
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Johann August Nahl the Younger
Venus protecting Helen from the Wrath of Aeneas
1793
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Felix Jan Ferdinand Heyndrickx
Hector censuring Paris and Helen
ca. 1820
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Giuseppe Diotti
Antigone condemned to Death by Creon
1845
oil on canvas
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
after Andrea Mantegna
Hercules and Antaeus
ca. 1490-1500
engraving
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico d'Imola)
Hercules and Antaeus
ca. 1705-1710
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)
Hercules and Antaeus
ca. 1488-89
bronze plaquette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jean-François de Troy
Pan and Syrinx
1733
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Francesco Furini
Hylas and the Nymphs
ca. 1632
oil on canvas
Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Salvador Dalí
Theseus and the Minotaur
1942
oil on canvas
(study for stage curtain)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Her Triumph

I did the dragon's will until you came
Because I had fancied love a casual
Improvisation, or a settled game
That followed if I let the kerchief fall:
Those deeds were best that gave the minutes wings
And heavenly music if they gave it wit;
And then you stood among the dragon-rings,
I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it
And broke the chain and set my ankles free,
Saint George or else a pagan Perseus;
And now we stare astonished at the sea,
And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us.

– W.B. Yeats (1933)