Sujet

The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1776. Creator: Giovanni David.

Légende

The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1776. King Priam's daughter Polyxena is sacrificed for her betrayal of Achilles after her brothers shot a poisoned arrow in his heel.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A95_158

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

29,1Mo (3,2Mo) / 31,0cm x 23,5cm / 3661 x 2778 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy Italian female women woman people male man men arts country body bodies vulnerability monarch guy arrow weapon weapons museum feet foot king dramatic poison royal death dying Greek heel Greece war warrior location century gesturing literature royalty altar concept legend incense mythology incense burner B&W hand gesture betrayal metamorphoses warfare hand Gestures The Met Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Treachery black & white black and white B W weaponry legendary Ancient Greece poisoned Greek mythology treacherous 18th century Ancient Greek betraying Eighteenth Century Achilles aquatint etching King Priam Priam sovereign TGN the body Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso Polyxena Heritage Art etching and aquatint Giovanni David David Giovanni Achilles heel poisoned arrow