AphroditeCythera1.0011

AphroditeCythera1.0011_Watteau

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OGCMA s.v. "Cythera, Isle of Aphrodite"
Classical Source:
Hesiod, Theogony, 191-98

Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721, "Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera" ("Embarkation for the Island of Cythera"), oil on canvas, 1717, Louvre, Paris, inv. no. 8525.

Scholarly critique is sometimes divided over whether Watteau depicts lovers departing (from) or embarking for a journey to Venus' pleasurable place.

A pastoral painting depicting elegantly dressed figures embarking on a journey towards a mystical island, watched by putti

This slide informed by SMcArthur W19

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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