ScyllaCrataeis2.0021_Grupello

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ScyllaCrataeis2.0021_Grupello

Reid s.v. "Scylla, daughter of Crataeis"
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Gabriel Grupello, 1644-1730, "Scylla and Glaucus", marble sculpture in landscape garden, carved before 1716; Düsseldorf, Schloss Schwertigen.

Scylla, daughter of Crataeis — who will eventually be transformed from a lovely maiden into the gruesome threat to mariners — is here courted by Glaucus her would-be piscine courtier. Glaucus has been transformed by Circe's magic; and soon Scylla will suffer a similar, though even more horrible, metamorphosis. Meanwhile, Scylla blithely spurns Glaucus' play for her affections.

The image at right is derived from the Wikipedia Commons where it is presumed as an art object in the Public Domain.

Bibliography:

Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. 1971. Europäische Barockplastik am Niederrhein; Grupello und seine Zeit. Ausstellung unter dem Patronat des Internationalen Museumrates (ICOM), 4 April — 20 June 1971. Cat. No. 53.

Review — Döry, Ludwig. 1972. “European Baroque Sculpture on the Lower Rhine - Grupello and His Times.” The Burlington Magazine 114, no. 826: 44-47. — http://www.jstor.org/stable/876861.

Kultermann, Udo. 1968. Gabriel Grupello Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft. No. 177.

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.
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