Knight - Leg Armor Close Detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art
René Lelong (French, 1871-1933) The Youth of Bacchus
La Danse des Bacchantes by Charles Gleyre (1849)
Hercules at the Feet of Omphale by Édouard Joseph Dantan (1874)
tragedy in art
- the execution of lady jane grey by paul delaroche (1833)
- the fall of babylon by john martin (1831)
- ophelia by sir john everett millais (1852)
- the destruction of pompeii and herculaneum by john martin (1822)
- princess tarakanova by konstantin flavitsky (1864)
- the episode of the yellow fever by juan manuel blanes (1871)
- les saltimbanques by gustave dore (1874)
- ivan the terrible and his son ivan by ilya repin (1885)
- the course of empire, destruction by thomas cole (1836)
- the plague of ashdod by nicolas poussin (1630)
“Tetemrehívás” (The Ordeal of the Bier) [1881] - Gyárfás Jenő
Detail of a head of Aphrodite, inspired by Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Knidos. Though the source does not specify which copy this image depicts, the head bears a resemblance to the Kaufmann head of Aphrodite, a Roman copy dated to the 2nd century BCE. The Kaufmann head is currently located in the Louvre. Source: Art Stack.
Source: marmarinos
