The Loves of the Gods  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Revision as of 13:36, 9 July 2010; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Jump to: navigation, search
Image:Jupiter and Io by Correggio.jpg
Jupiter and Io (c. 1530) by Correggio, one of the few paintings to leave the Orleans Collection before the French Revolution. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Image:Danae.jpg
Danae (1907- 08) - Gustav Klimt, Zeus came to Danaë in the form of golden rain, and impregnated her. Soon after, their child Perseus was born.

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop

Featured:

Carracci frescoes, mythological painting, loves of Zeus, love life, love god

The Loves of the Gods (Italian: Gli Amori Degli Dei) are a subheading of a number of stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. These stories of Greek gods and goddesses include Apollo and Daphne, Io, Phaethon, Callisto, Apollo and Coronis (The Raven and the Crow), Mercury and Battus, Mercury and Aglauros, and Jupiter and Europa.

Annibale Carracci frescos

The Loves of the Gods (Carracci)

The Loves of the Gods is a fresco cycle completed by Annibale Carracci and his studio in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, completed in 1608. The fresco series was greatly admired in its time, and was later felt to reflect a change in aesthetic in Rome from Mannerism to Baroque.

Demigods

demigod

The term "demigod", meaning "half-god", is used to describe mythological figures whose one parent was a god and whose other parent was human. Demi-gods include Gilgamesh and Heracles.


Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "The Loves of the Gods" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://artandpopularculture.com/The_Loves_of_the_Gods"
Personal tools
Metas