Pygmalion2.0022

Pygmalion2.0022_Swanson

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

Clarence Sinclair Bull, photograph, Gloria Swanson poses as Pygmalion's sculpted girl, Galatea.

Image used in (this scan) Michael Williams, Film, Stardom, Myth and Classicism (Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2013) 70. See Williams' discussion of the Pygmalion theme.

Gloria Swanson's pose as Venus de Milo is also discussed by Williams, as is Joan Crawford's pose as the same.

A black and white photo of a woman in a gown with a dramatic neckline, leaning against a white column

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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.