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Sleeping Venus with Cupid, 1540
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Sleeping Venus with Cupid, 1540
100+ Very High Resolution Art Pics
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Portrait of a Young Woman, Paris Bordone, 1545
P. Bordone, Bastheba at her bath (Wallraf Richartz Museum Cologne)
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of an anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in the desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon. Character always secures for itself this advantage, and is thus distinct and unrelated to near or trivial objects, whether things or persons. (H. D. Thoreau)
Christ as “The Light of the World”, by Paris Bordone, National Gallery, London.
Sleeping Venus, by Paris Bordone, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, Venice.
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The Redeemer, by Paris Bordone, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.
Neptune and Amphitrite by Paris Bordone, 1560
The Rape of Athena - 1555
Bordone’s Rape of Athena is yet another Renaissance painting that displays the warrior goddess. In this particular painting the myth revolving around the rape of Athena by the god Hephaestus is represented. Athena is somewhat sexualised by Bordone, as depicted by her bare leg and yet she is still the warrior, helmeted and baring her aegis as she fights off Hephaestus’ advantages. Typically in ancient representations of Athena, she is the most dressed of the gods, always clothed in heavy drapery and this makes any nakedness of the goddess even more powerful. Susan Deacy says that “both warrior and feminine traits by a single goddess is something odd”[1] this is shown to be true in depictions of Athena when she is more often than not, shown as either one or the other. Hephaestus could be said to be the subject of sexuality in the painting as he is naked, exposing himself to the virgin goddess as he attempts to rape her. Bordone’s Athena displays some sexuality but is still an image of the warrior goddess, defending her own honour.
[1] Deacy, S. (2008). Athena, London: Routledge. p. 41
Image details: The Rape of Athena