Sisyphus1.0001_Titian

Sisyphus1.0001_Titian

Prado site
Las Furias (2014) at the Prado
ogcma Sisyphus1.0000_Reid
Classical Sources:
Homer, Od. 11.593-600
Aeschylus, Sisyphus Petrokylistes, fragment
Sophocles, Sisyphus(?), fragment
Euripides, Sisyphus (?), fragment
Alcaeus 38.5.10=fr. 110.5-10 ML p.360
Ovid Met. 4.460-68, 10.44, 13.26-33
Lucretius 3.995-1006
Apollodorus Libr. 1.9.3
Hyginus Fabulae 60, 201
Pausanias, 2.1.3, 2.5.1

Titian, 1488/90-1576, "Sisyphus," oil on canvas, part of "The Four Condemned" series, 1548-49, Prado, Madrid, no. 426.

Sisyphus, a muscular man, struggles to push a large boulder up a hill while grotesque figures emerge from the darkness.

Bibliography:
Wethey 1975, no. 19B
Prado 1985, pp. 701f.
Berenson 1957, p. 188.

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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