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E71 - A woman player of aulos
Acrylic on canvas 190 x 114 cm - 75 x 45 inchesMore about this painting
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- 2006
- 071 - A woman player of aulos
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More about this painting
ETRUSCAN / (Text translated by Google) / This player is aulos Greek-inspired 500 years before our era, she was the daughter of painter Kléophradès near Pioneers face red. Initially the body is built like a javelin thrower. After a slight anamorphosis, breasts still perched high under the arms are plated on a torso of an athlete normally heavily muscled hips, however, markedly attenuated in this case, which gives it its elongated shape. In Greek art, the male body that forms the single most desirable model, is the absolute cannon of beauty: the body is supposed to be so perfect that it is sufficient in itself! The amulet attached to his right thigh is nothing less than the monogram Philhelm. The dog is the painter who accompanied Heracles Sappho here 490 years before Christ. The projections are anamorphic architectural zenith of a neck Etruscan vase, on which balls were added and spikes of gilded copper.
Aulos: Wind musical instrument antique oboe type, consisting of reeds (can also be made of ivory) consisting of a double pipe and with a reed.
Red face: On painted vases, the background is black, the figures are the color of the clay and the details are painted, not incised.
Sappho: Greek poetess of antiquity, seventh century BC in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. She has left numerous poems dedicated to girls with whom she lived and she initiated him ... She committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea after being spurned by a man she wanted.