I saw a painting a few days back that I attempted to make a mental note of and failed. Here’s what I remember: it was a classical piece of what I seem to recall were mythical figures, and featured a guy with an unconscious woman slung over his shoulder. Oh, and the woman was really pale. Does this ring any bells for anyone?
Botticelli’s popular this spring.
Does the piece look like it could be his?
Could it be this?
Ah, no, the style looked like it was relatively modern. It kind of resembled a Waterhouse painting, actually. The woman’s skin was really luminescent, like this: http://brightestblue.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/john_william_waterhouse_-_hylas_and_the_nymphs_1896-790677.jpg. The background was quite dark. The man may have been standing on stone steps. There may have been foliage in the background.
Since this is about art, it is better for Cafe Society than General Questions.
Colibri
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Where did you see it? Real life or on the web?
Could it be Cezanne’s The Abduction?
That’s not it, but it’s closer.
Edit: I saw it on Wikipedia, but I keep a very short history so I can’t find it again.
Bumping this in the hopes that someone has some idea.
It sounds a bit like one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artists of the late 1800s, maybe even this.
If anyone’s interested, I managed to find it again. It was Pre-Raphaelite! Though I guess she wasn’t unconscious after all. (What’s with Ajax’s positioning anyway? The way he’s walking he must have come directly out of the monument or something.)
I’d do her.
Glad you found it, FlyingRamenMonster!
Ajax probably had to climb down from Athena’s statue, where Cassandra was trying to hide herself / get sanctuary. Little good did her Athena-worshipping do her, of course. Athena punished Ajax after the fact, but did squat to protect poor Cassandra.