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Tisiphone (2017)Oil painting by Armando Rossi
30 x 40 x 4cm (unframed) / 30 x 40cm (actual image size)
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Original artwork description
In Greek mythology the Furies, also known as the Erinyes, were female chthonic deities of vengeance; they were sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses". A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath". Walter Burkert suggests they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath". They correspond to the Dirae in Roman mythology. The Roman writer Maurus Servius Honoratus wrote that they are called "Eumenides" in hell, "Furiae" on earth, and "Dirae" in heaven. Virgil told they're three: Alecto or Alekto ("endless"), Megaera ("jealous rage"), and Tisiphone or Tilphousia ("vengeful destruction").
In this tryptic I intended to give my personal interpretation of these characters, so terrible and so charming.
This one is Tisiphone, the last one.
Materials used:
gesso primer, oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 30 x 40 x 4cm (unframed) / 30 x 40cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#portrait#clouds#female portrait#greek mythology#reptile#tryptic#salamander#furies
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Original artwork description
In Greek mythology the Furies, also known as the Erinyes, were female chthonic deities of vengeance; they were sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses". A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath". Walter Burkert suggests they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath". They correspond to the Dirae in Roman mythology. The Roman writer Maurus Servius Honoratus wrote that they are called "Eumenides" in hell, "Furiae" on earth, and "Dirae" in heaven. Virgil told they're three: Alecto or Alekto ("endless"), Megaera ("jealous rage"), and Tisiphone or Tilphousia ("vengeful destruction").
In this tryptic I intended to give my personal interpretation of these characters, so terrible and so charming.
This one is Tisiphone, the last one.
Materials used:
gesso primer, oil
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 30 x 40 x 4cm (unframed) / 30 x 40cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#portrait#clouds#female portrait#greek mythology#reptile#tryptic#salamander#furies
Armando Rossi
Italy
About
I've always been found of every kind of visual art, since I was a kid. I was born in Naples, then I moved to Germany for many years with my... Read more