Re: Plato and Virtue(s)
Posted: 04 Jun 2012, 15:51
I stumbled about a funny picture ...
http://digitalcorpora.org/corp/nps/file ... 72504.html
with the accompanying text
... and it sends the interpretation of the reader in different directions, finishing with a trivial "well, it's me, Francois I"
http://digitalcorpora.org/corp/nps/file ... 72504.html
with the accompanying text
Somehow it remembered me on the discussions in this thread. Well, the picture mixed the symbols of the gods to follow a specific interest: to present Francois I as an important man.62. François Ier en déité (Francis I as a God), mid-1540s, Department of Prints and Photographs, Na 255 Rés., Parchment glued on oak panel
In this painting, the king, Francis I (1515-1547), wears Minerva's helmet, Mars's armor, Mercury's winged sandals and his staff, Diana's hunting horn, and Cupid's bow and quiver; and a Medusa's head adorns his breastplate. This elevation of the monarch into a superman with the attributes of the Olympic gods was typical of royal iconography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
... and it sends the interpretation of the reader in different directions, finishing with a trivial "well, it's me, Francois I"