Pygmalion2.0014

Pygmalion2.0014_Gauffier

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

Louis Gauffier, 1762-1801, "Pygmalion", 1797, painting, Manchester Art Gallery.

Gauffier has worked carefully to show two textures of the statue's flesh and marble extremities in the moment of animation, a visual motif established by Raoux in 1717.

Pygmalion worshipping Aphrodite, who brings his statue Galatea to life, with Cupid flying nearby.

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