Aug 26, 2025
The lunatic of Ilium
I finally got around to making a proper version of this old sketch of Andromache sitting in the Greek camp, following the fall of Troy.
based on: the lunatic of etretat (aka THE grief painting ever)
#the lunatic of etretat my beloved#will i ever stop being obsessed with this painting? probably not#for those who don't know the painting: it's of a woman holding a log wrapped in a blanket#its thought to represent a mother who's grief has driven her mad to the point she's either pretending or convinced the log is her child#and UGH#it's just so andromache coded to me#like she's in the greek camp and in shock from everything and she just wants to hold her (at this point likely dead) child#and so she grabs the nearest thing and enters a delusion where that's her boy#andromache#scamandrius#astyanax#tagamemnon#greek mythology#the iliad#digital art#my art#trojan family#andromache of troy#digital painting#andromache iliad#the return of helmet astyanax#trojan war#rip hector#skin study#the epic cycle#homeric epics#greek mythology as paintings#kexy talks paintings
