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Echo and Narcissus

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Description: Echo and Narcissus
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Description: Manet and the Family Romance
WHEN THOMAS DE QUINCEY wrote of “the couch of Orestes” in the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater of 1821, he was calling up two images at once: on the one hand, the barrage of thoughts and dreams that tormented Orestes after his murder of his mother, and at the same time, the tender...
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.13-40
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00272.002
Description: Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso
Bernini’s Pluto suggests Pygmalion when he seemingly presses his fingers into the flesh of his maiden, whereas what we in fact see is inert stone. Many artists have tried, however imperfectly, to capture the effect of a work of art coming alive...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.81-109
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00090.006

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