Room 4
Like Artemis and her nymphs, the mortal Atalanta rejects the powers of Aphrodite and excels in the purportedly masculine pursuits: hunting, hand-to-hand combat, running . . . Atalanta represents a potential threat to gender roles that has been deactivated time and time again, from Ovid himself to pictorial interpretations of the myth. In Victorian painting, however, the iconography of ancient huntresses and athletes was revived to depict the emancipation of the female body and the right by women to indulge in sports as the first step in the conquest of other social and political rights.
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- Autor:
- Guido Reni
- Título:
- Atalanta and Hippomenes, 1618–19
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- Oil on canvas, 192 x 264 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Inv. no.: Q-349
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- Autor:
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Título:
- Diana the Huntress, c. 1620
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 182 x 194 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Inv. no.: P1727
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- Autor:
- Lord Frederick Leighton
- Título:
- Greek Girls Playing at Ball, c. 1889
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 114 x 197 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- East Ayrshire Council, Scotland
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