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mask131 · 2 months

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The Dionysos gallery (1)

I wanted to conclude my long series of Dionysos posts with a collection of Dionysos and Bacchus paintings that were carefully collected by the website of the French Museum of Wine! (Only in France can you have a museum of wine be a normal thing)

First we have an entire section about Dionysos himself. The page is here if you are interested.

I/ Dionysos as a child and a teenager

Giulio Romano's The Birth of Bacchus

Laurence de la Hyre's Mercury entrusting Bacchus to the Nymphs

Giovanni Bellini's Child Bacchus

William-Adolphe Bouguereau's The Youth of Bacchus

Caravagio's Bacchus

Caesar van Everdingen's Nymphs offering wine, fruits and flowers to the young Bacchus

II) Bacchus as a god

Titien's Bacchus and Ariadne

Guido Reni's Bacchus and Ariadne

Brothers Le Nain's Bacchus discovering Ariadne at Naxos

Alessandro Turchi's Bacchus and Ariadne

Caesar van Everdingen's Bacchus with two nymphs and Cupid

Charles de la Fosse's Bacchus and Ariadne

Jean-François de Troy's Bacchus and Ariadne

Sebastiano Ricci's Bacchus and Ariadne

Jacopo Amigoni's Bacchus and Ariadne

Bartolomeo Manfredi's Bacchus and a drinker

Nicolas Poussin's Midas and Bacchus

Bartholomaus Spranger's "Sine cerere et baccho friget venus", also known as Bacchus and Ceres

Louis de Caullery's Venus, Bacchus and Ceres dancing with mortals in a garden of love

Hans von Aachen's Bacchus, Ceres and Cupid

Bon Boullogne's Venus, Bacchus and Ceres

Sebastiano Ricci's Bacchus and Ceres

Maurice Dennis' Bacchus and Ariadne

#the art of the myth #dionysos #dionysus #greek god #greek mythology #ariadne #demeter #paintings #painting #art #museum #ceres #bacchus

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golyadkin · 8 months

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Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

#tentatively unprivating to post this...might have to private again if the bots attack #death //#icarus #minotaur #daedalus #comics #greek mythology #pulled out my old classic greek myths book to go over the mythology for this and man...#daedalus was kind of a piece of work huh #art tag

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fox-graves · 2 months

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The Bull of Minos wishes for a kinder myth where he can be free

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Needle felt Minotaur, handmade by me. Available for purchase in source link.

#needle felting #art #minotaur #furry art #fantasy art #greek mythology #greek myth art #bull furry #anthro #anthro art #needle felt #needle felted

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vetyr · 7 months

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Hades and Persephone

Recent commission! The details on this one were crazy fun to paint, I spent a lot of time on it but I'm really happy with the result :)

If you'd like to make an inquiry or get more information about commissions, feel free to email [email protected].

#artists on tumblr #greek myth #greek mythology #classics #hades #persephone #commission #illustration #digital art

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rustic-space-fiddle · 15 days

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WIP of Penelope with her forever-unfinished shroud.

#epic the musical #epic penelope #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #epic the musical fanart #art #fan art #sketch #digital art #procreate art #rustic space doodles #artists of tumblr

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sennamaticart · 1 year

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Running Running Running

#unicorn #horse #pony #animation #2d animation #animator #animated gif #gallop #run #fantasy #medival #fantasy illustration #fantasy art #magical creatures #mythical creatures #myth #art tag #the number of songs i listened to about running while doing this is insane actually

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thereinart · 7 months

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The obsession for Epic continues with Odysseus and Athena

Their relationship is... Complex

#epic the musical #Athena #Odysseus #Odyssey #Myth #Greek myth #my art #illustration

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h00f · 3 months

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T4TM (Theseus4TheMinotaur)

lost wax cast bronze, patina & paste wax

2023

(process photos & info under cut <3)

my minotaur boy!! pls click on the photos for higher res! my thesis is focusing on trans men and creatures (how original ik) and this was last semester's final. i spent a lot of time looking at sculptures of the theseus/minotaur story, and yknow? a LOT of them are erotic! i'm pretty sure i saw some of them on tumblr a decade ago, and that's led to this now!

as you'll notice, the minotaur has a big t-dick! i wanted to give him breasts and an enlarged clitoris to present a very masculine trans figure. the boy on the bottom is also trans because i say so . the piece is about looking up to older, bigger, hairier trans men and seeing something awe-inspiring and beautiful. the minotaur was locked up by a cruel father for being different, and i think modern adaptations tend towards a sympathetic asterion (his name in one version)

making this piece was. so much effort. it took me about 3 months to get it all together - from clay model (plasticine) to 3D print to silicone mold to wax cast, and finally bronze pour into the shell mold. and then a TON of filing, sanding, dremel-ing, and various other metalworking techniques that probably took years off my life.

i started with sketches and made theeeeeee ugliest model ever:

then used a 3D scanner to get it digital, then spent a goooood month or two making him pretty in blender! then i spent an agonizing few weeks trying to get it print-ready, and fiiiiiinally did

^^^ an early resin printed draft of the model - you can see in the final that i added lots to theseus after some feedback, but sadly the nosering broke off every time i cast it so i just. let that be <3

then came the moldmaking, and then the wax dipping!! the yellow stuff is shell mold (ground up ceramic bits and algae soup, sticks to the wax, then silica sand in varying sizes on top) which gets the wax melted out, and bronze poured in!

then it's all metalworking, cutting stuff off, and working with hot metal. they don't tell you about all the bronze dust and how annoying it gets wearing a respirator AND goggles. but it is for me health, me boy. here's him all cleaned up before the patina:

and then i spray him down with various chemicals to make it "patina" (aka rust) in pretty colors. wait a few days, then apply paste wax to seal it and give it that shine!

then we get what you see above!!! the blue was actually unintentional, and i'm still not super sure why it looks that way.. but it's pretty so idc <3

thanks for reading!! if you ever have any bronze/casting questions, don't hesitate to message me! <3

#artists on tumblr #bronze sculpture #sculpture #greek myth art #queer artwork #jays0n arts #trans ftm #thanks for reading if you did! i put a lot of work into this project #it's defffff not perfect but i'm proud of what i did!!#if ur curious: my next one is a werewolf w his pussy out :)

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unbizzarre · 6 months

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Young Odysseus introduces his son to the goddess Athena

(Alternative title: Telemachus meets his fairy Godmother)

Creator’s note:

Does this picture look blurry to you? Like even if you click on the image to enlarge it? I don’t know why but I can’t seem to get tumblr to show the full resolution image. I worked hard to make faces that actually look like faces for once but now they’re just blurry blobs 😭. Anybody know how to fix? EDIT: thank you all for the feedback! I’m glad it is not blurry for you!

#the odyssey #odyssey fanart #odysseus #telemachus #tagamemnon #greek mythology #greek mythology fanart #greek myth art #Athena #greek gods #epic the musical #The iliad #Trojan war #homers odyssey #classics

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temeyes · 2 months

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//i wont say (im in love) plays in the background//

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scatterghosts · 1 year

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Up The Wolves by The Mountain Goats // Minotauro by Jordi Garriga Mora

#lyrics edit #art #lyrics #collage art #tmg #tmg lyrics #tmg art history #Greek myth #minotaur #labyrinths #labyrinth #up the wolves #the sunset tree #the mountain goats #the mountain goats lyrics #the mountain goats art history #web weaving #orange

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mask131 · 2 months

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The Dionysos gallery (2)

Next on our travel down the Dionysos museum, we have an entire section dedicated to the Bacchanals in painting - with a few analysis here and there.

Titien's The Bacchanal of the Andrians

The Museum's website adds that this depicts the legend of how Dionysos gifted the inhabitants of the island of Andros with a river of wine. It was one of the numerous "miracles" attributed to the god by folk-belief when he became the god of the grapevine. Already in his "Bacchants" Euripides had told how, by touching a stone with his thyrsus he created a stream of fresh water, and where his narthex had touched the ground a stream of wine flowed ; and those that sought milk only had to scratch the ground near the god to see it flow, and from the god's thyrsus honey dropped...

In Ionia, on the island of Teos, a similar legend existed: it was said, by Diodor of Sicily and Pline the Elder, that at a fixed date in a calendar a stream of wine regularly flowed. At Elis, on the eve of the god's feast-day, empty jars and jugs were sealed and left alone in Dionysos' temple: by the morning, when they were opened, they were filled to the brim with wine.

Giovanni Bellini and Titien's The Feast of the Gods

The museum adds this mention: the painting is a depiction of the legend of Lotis collected by Ovid. One night, as the gods had a feast, the nymph Lotis fell asleep. Priapus got close to her, and with his famous ithyphallic nature, he decided to rape her. But as he was about to touch her body, the donkey of Silenus started making loud noises - waking up everybody, including Lotis. Lotis fled from Priapus' embrace, and all the gods laughed and mocked the god.

This painting was most notably the favorite painting of Fernand Botero.

Dosso Dossi's Bacchanal with a drunk Silenus and Bacchants frolicking around grapevine

Niccolo Frangipane's Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin's Bacchanal

Nicolas Poussin's Bacchanal with a guitar player ; also called "Great Bacchanal"

Nicolas Poussin's Bacchic Scene

Pier Francesco Mola's Bacchus supervising the Satyrs pressing wine

Gerrit van Bronckhorst's Bacchanal with Silenus

Jacob van Loo's Scene with Bacchants

Michaelina Wautier's Bacchanal

Jacques Jordaens' Bacchanal

Giulio Carpioni's Bacchanal

Michel-Ange Houasse's Bacchanal

Francesco Zuccarelli's Bacchanal

#dionysos #the art of the myth #dionysus #bacchanal #the dionysos gallery #silenus #bacchants #greek mythology #painting #art

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kelogsloops · 8 months

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The final piece from my recent show, ‘In Harmony.’ The Eastern Phoenix is often associated with harmony and new beginnings. In trying to portray those associations, the body is decorated with floral motifs; little sprouts blooming from its back, and tail feathers resembling a blossoming flower #brbchasingdreams

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