1880년대의 Waterhouse 그림 모음

A Flower Stall

painting date: 1880
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 56 x 79 cm
location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

 

 

 

Dolce Far Niente

painting date: 1880
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 50 x 95.5 cm
location: Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Kirkcaldy, Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diogenes

painting date: 1882
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 208 x 135 cm
location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

 

 

 

Diogenes of Sinope, d. c.320 BC, was a Greek philosopher, perhaps the most noted of the Cynics. He pursued the Cynic ideal of self-sufficiency, a life that was natural and not dependent upon the nonessential luxuries of civilization. A student of Antisthenes, he is credited with the development of the chreia (moral epigram), with a scandalous attack of convention entitled Republic (which influenced Zeno of Citium), and with tragedies illustrative of the human predicament. Because Diogenes believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory, he made his life a protest against what he thought of as a corrupt society. He is said to have lived in a large tub, rather than house, and to have gone about Athens with a lantern in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man--but never finding one. In later art, Diogenes is often depicted in a torn cloak, with a dog, carrying a lantern.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius

painting date: 1883
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 117 x 202 cm
location: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

 

 

 

 

Flavius Honorius (born 384, died 423) was Roman Emperor in the West from 393 to 423, a period when much of the Western Empire was overrun by invading tribes and Rome was captured and plundered by the Visigoths. Honorius was one of the weakest of the Roman emperors, and Waterhouse shows him engrossed not in affairs of the empire, but instead with feeding his favourite pet pigeons.

 

 

 

 

 

A Byway: Ancient Rome

painting date: 1884

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consulting the Oracle

painting date: 1884
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 119 x 198 cm
location: Tate Britain, London, England

 

 

In this painting Waterhouse depicts a "semicircle of woman seeking the prophecies of the Teraph (a human skull), and the figure of the priestess as she 'interprets its decree with terror'..... The Illustrated London News described it as one of the principal works of the year and engraved it across two pages of an extra supplement: it was bought by Sir Henry Tate and is one of the four Waterhouse pictures in the Tate Gallery."
Source: Anthony Hobson, J W Waterhouse, 1989, p.34.

 

 

 

 

 

Good Neighbours

painting date: 1885
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 69 x 60 cm

 

Also known as 'Gossip' or 'The Gossips' or 'Washing Day'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

St Eulalia

painting date: 1885
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 74 x 46 in
location: Tate Britain, London, England

This painting earned Waterhouse his election as an Associate of the Royal Academy.

Prudentius says that the body of St Eulalia was shrouded by a miraculous fall of snow when lying exposed in the forum after her martyrdom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Flower Market, Old Rome

painting date: 1886
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 155 x 88 cm
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Magic Circle

painting date: 1886
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 183 x 127 cm
location: Tate Britain, London, England

 

 

Chantrey Bequest purchase for £650 in 1886.

"A magic circle was cast to purify and create a perimeter of space wherein evil magic could not enter. Goddesses and good spirits were invited into the circle, which sometimes had powerful, protective stones placed at North, South, East, and West points. Each point was associated with the Four Elements. North was the most powerful direction. It represented the element of Earth, the celestial bodies revolving around the North Star, and encompassed all secrets, darkness, and the unknown. South was the element of Fire and therefore associated with the sun. This point signified the meeting of East and West - intuition, insight, reason, and logic - and the channeling of the powers of intellect, clairvoyance, and nature. East was the direction for the element of Air, symbolizing clarity, spiritual awareness, and mysticism. West represented imagination and inspiration, as well as emotions and reason. The circle itself was a mark of infinity and eternity.

A witch would cast a magic circle by turning clockwise, beginning at East, following the revolution of the sun. The magic circle was drawn with either a a magic wand or an anthame (a black-handled ceremonial dagger). A charm or spell was recited as the witch cast the circle, asking the presence of friendly or helpful spirits to attend."
Quoted from 'Witches: A Book of Magic and Wisdom'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mariamne leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod

painting date: 1887
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 259 x 180 cm
location: Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, USA

Mariamne (c. 57-29 BC), Jewish princess, a popular heroine in both Jewish and Christian traditions, whose marriage (37 BC) to the Judean king Herod the Great united his family with the deposed Hasmonean royal family (Maccabees) and helped legitimize his position. At the instigation of his sister Salome and Mariamne's mother, Alexandra, however, Herod had her put to death for adultery. Later, he also executed her two sons, Alexander and Aristobulus.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleopatra

painting date: 1888
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 25.7 x 22.4 in (65.4 x 56.8 cm)
location: Private Collection

 

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Greek: Goddess Loving Her Father)
b. 69 BC, d. Aug. 30, 30 BC, Alexandria, Egypt

Egyptian queen famous in history and drama, lover of Julius Caesar and later the wife of Mark Antony. She became queen on the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 BC, ruling successively with her two brothers Ptolemy XIII (51-47) and Ptolemy XIV (47-44) and her son Ptolemy XV Caesar (44-30). After the Roman armies of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) defeated their combined forces, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, and Egypt fell under Roman domination. Her ambition no less than her charm actively influenced Roman politics at a crucial period, and she came to represent, as did no other woman of antiquity, the prototype of the romantic femme fatale.

Source: Encyclop?dia Britannica.