Hylas1.0020_Thorvaldsen

Hylas1.0020_Thorvaldsen

OGCMA s.v. "Jason: Hylas"
Thorvaldsensmuseum
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Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, "Hylas Stolen by the Water Nymphs", marble relief panel, Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen, no. A484; after plaster original, 1833, no. A485.

Scores of such depictions from classical mythology fill Thorvaldsen's collective oeuvre. Here the myth's critical moment is depicted: the lovely Hylas looks back toward his protectors, Heracles and the Argonauts, as the lovely nymphs of the Mysian spring take him into their pool.

Thorvaldsen had approached the topic two years earlier in 1831 in A482/A483.

The image at right is downloaded with permission from the Thorvaldsensmuseum.

Thorvaldsen, Hylas

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.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.