Artemis
West Point
Calydonian Boar
Francois Vase
Psalm 17:13
"Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:"
I John 2:23
"Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy."~~~F. D. Roosevelt
The Diana of Versailles, statue of the Greek goddess Artemis (Latin:
Diana), with a deer, Musée du Louvre, Paris. It is a Roman copy (1st or
2nd century AD) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares,
c. 325 BC.
Artémis - a statue of the greek goddess artemis at the louvre
The François Vase (Museo Archeologico, Florence.
Artemis (Diana)-goddess of the
moon, hunting and protectress of animals; virgin goddess presiding over
childbirth and all things feminine
Peter Paul Rubens , Calydonian Boar Hunt, 1611–12
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The boar was furiously twisting its body round and round, its
jaws slavering with foam and fresh blood...the hero who had dealt the
wound came up close to the animal and roused his foe to fury, before
finally burying his shining spear in its shoulder.
-Ovid, Metamorphoses
Wrapped in a flowing red cape, the warrior Meleager thrusts his spear
into the shoulder of a massive boar. The ferocious creature--seemingly
undaunted by a pair of hounds latched onto its bristled hide--has turned
to confront head-on its human adversary. Meleager's blow will prove to
be fatal to the boar, but the beast has proven itself as a fearsome foe.
Beneath its imposing hooves lie the disemboweled carcass of a hound and
the prostrate corpse of the hunter, Ancaeus.
The story of the Calydonian boar hunt was told and retold during antiquity--most famously in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
When King Oeneus of Calydon failed to honor the goddess Diana with
offerings, she released a terrifying boar on his land. The king's son,
Meleager, assembled a group of renowned warriors to slay the beast.
Several of the huntsmen were killed or maimed before Meleager finally
defeated the boar. He presented its head as a trophy to his beloved, the
huntress Atalanta, who is seen behind Meleager, with bow in hand.
Peter Paul Rubens created this painting a few years after an extended stay in Italy. He drew from ancient sarcophagi
and statues he had seen there for the poses of many of the figures. For
example, the boar seen in profile was taken directly from a well-known
marble in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. Rubens's appropriation of iconic
images from antiquity was intended to resonate with learned viewers. For the figures on horseback, Rubens borrowed from his Renaissance
predecessors, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. But Rubens's dynamic and
inventive interpretation of the hunt was wholly his own. With this
painting, he established the theme of the epic combat between man and
animal, a subject to which he would return throughout his career.
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Chess: "Artemis" "West Point" "Calydonian Boar" "The François Vase"
The
François Vase, a milestone in the development of
Greek pottery, is a large volute
krater decorated in the
black-figure style which stands at 66 cm in height. Dated at circa 570/560 BCE it was found in 1844 in an
Etruscan tomb in the necropolis of Fonte Rotella near
Chiusi and named after its discoverer
Alessandro François (
it); it is now in the
Museo Archeologico at
Florence. It bears the inscriptions "Ergotimos mepoiesen" and "Kleitias megraphsen", meaning "
Ergotimos made me" and "
Kleitias painted me".
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It depicts over 200 figures, many with identifying inscriptions,
representing a number of mythological themes. It is a topic of scholarly
debate whether an overarching programme was intended. In 1900 a museum
guard threw a stool at the case that contained the vase and smashed it
into 638 pieces. By 1902 it had been restored by Pietro Zei, with a
second reconstruction in 1973 incorporating previously missing pieces.
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