Mitología y mujer: ¿por qué los pintores del XIX las pintaron muriendo?

Seventeen women from mythology and ancient history, painted by the great masters of the 19th century: Gérôme, Cabanel, Moreau, Siemiradzki, Leighton, Collier, Waterhouse, Eduardo Rosales, Bouguereau, and others. A journey through European academic painting and the male gaze of the Salon. Why were Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Medea, Salome, Phryne, Circe, Lucretia, Cleopatra, Dido, Ariadne, Calypso, Eurydice, Andromeda, Andromache, Penthesilea, Messalina, and the Christian Dirce almost always painted at the worst moment of their lives? Those who loved too much: Dido, Ariadne, Calypso, Eurydice. Those who dared to wield power: Clytemnestra, Cleopatra, Messalina, Salome. Those who dared to embrace knowledge: Cassandra, Medea, Circe. Those who bore the burden of male desire: Lucretia, Phryne, Andromeda, Christiana Dirce. Those who witnessed the end: Penthesilea, Andromache. https://myriamalcaraz.com #mythology #art #painting #19thcentury #academicism #woman #arthistory