Showing posts with label Raymond Monvoisin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raymond Monvoisin. Show all posts

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Neoclassics

 Charles Meynier: Helen and Paris
  
Raymond Monvoisin: Callirhoe

Callirhoe and her lover, Chaereas, appear to have been the subject of the world's earliest known historical novel.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Telemachus and Eucharis (1824)

Raymond Monvoisin: Telemachus and Eucharis

This painting depicts a story based on Homeric themes (Telemachus was, of course, the son of Odysseus), but Eucharis was an invention of 17th century French literature.