Pygmalion1.0061

Pygmalion1.0061_Lagrenée

OGCMA s.v. "Pygmalion"
Classical Sources:
Ovid Met. 10.243-98
Apollodorus Libr. 3.14.3

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, 1725-1805, "Pygmalion in Love with His Statue," painting, 1772. Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki.

Reid cites: Carr, J. L. "Pygmalion and the Philosophes: The Animated Statue in Eighteenth-Century France." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 23, no. 3/4 (1960): 239-55. doi:10.2307/750594.

(Moog-Gruenewald s.v. "Pygmalion" 584)

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 forThe 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.
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