Ariadne2.0002_VigeeLeBrun

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Apollod. Libr. 3.1.2
Catullus 64.50-201
Ov. Met. 8.170-82

Marie-Louise Elizabeth Vigée-LeBrun, 1755-1842, “Portrait of Lady Hamilton as Ariadne,” 1790, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Cheshire.

Lady Hamilton was depicted as Ariadne with some frequency. Cf. G. Romney's handful of paintings (e.g. "Lady Hamilton Abandoned" and those of other contemporaries.

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, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.