File:Arnold Böcklin - Odysseus and Polyphemus.jpg
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Böcklin’s original training as a landscape painter shines through in this unconventional interpretation of an episode from the ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey. Crashing waves meet jagged rocks in a spray and scurry of foam. Escaping from the island of the Cyclopes—one-eyed, ill-tempered giants—the hero <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus" class="extiw" title="en:Odysseus">Odysseus</a> calls back to the shore, taunting the Cyclops <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphemus" class="extiw" title="en:Polyphemus">Polyphemus</a>, who heaves a boulder after the boat. Unlike Academic colleagues who treated ancient mythology with reverence and solemnity, Böcklin often played up strange, grotesque, and even ridiculous elements of these stories, conjuring a pre-Classical world governed by violence and lust.
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| current | 21:55, 3 January 2017 | | 4,000 × 1,728 (2.79 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <div class="description"> Böcklin’s original training as a landscape painter shines through in this unconventional interpretation of an episode from the ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey. Crashing waves meet jagged rocks in a spray and scurry of foam. Escaping from the island of the Cyclopes—one-eyed, ill-tempered giants—the hero <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus" class="extiw" title="en:Odysseus">Odysseus</a> calls back to the shore, taunting the Cyclops <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphemus" class="extiw" title="en:Polyphemus">Polyphemus</a>, who heaves a boulder after the boat. Unlike Academic colleagues who treated ancient mythology with reverence and solemnity, Böcklin often played up strange, grotesque, and even ridiculous elements of these stories, conjuring a pre-Classical world governed by violence and lust.</div> |
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