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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Presenting a mythological creature with a modern day theme, Bacchante gives us a glimpse of the richness of Greek mythology. Bacchante or Maenad or Bassarids, the child of the creature has many names in different mythologies or in different folklores. The ancient stories depict the creatures being the female followers of Dionysus- god of wine, ritual madness and ecstasy. They are fierce and uncontrolled bacchantes were illustrated as the doers of the acts which please them without concerning anything else. As their god gives the boon of being in ecstasy and madness, they strive for such adventures all the time. But, bacchantes are not the weak ladies. In the folklores, the strength their group is described that a group of them can uproot the […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...There are three titles available for the painting: The Death of Procris, A Satyr Mourning Over a Nymph and A mythological Subject. The main title of the painting stays confused as there is no specific and accepted conclusion about the subject of the scene. That’s why the National Gallery of London, current house of the painting, has just simply decided to call it “A Mythological subject”. The reason of the confusion is due the unclear base for the scene in history or in myths. The closest resemblance for the scene has been found by some historian is in the myth of Cephalus and Procris. The story is about a married couple in which the husband ends up killing her own wife with a magical javelin […]