Thursday, January 9, 2020

Furies (Erinyes)


Orestes at Delphi with Furies (ca. 330 BC)
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Priamo della Quercia (1400s)
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Jean de Court - Tisiphone Casting Snakes at Athamas and Ino (Watchcasecover, ca 1570)
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Iulio Bonasone - Juno Asks Furies to Drive Athamas Mad (ca. 1600)
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Antonio Tempesta - Tisiphone at the Palace of Athamas (1606)
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Crispijn van de Passe - Furies Visit Tereus
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Wenceslas Holler (ca. 1650)
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Godefried Maes - Athamas Tearing Apart his Children (Illustration of Metamorphosis of Ovidius)
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Luca Giordano (1685)
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Jacques de Lairesse (undated)
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Philip van Gunst (1732)
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Jean Massard (undated)
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John Downman - The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies (1781)
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William Hamilton - Joan of Arc with Furies (ca. 1790)
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John Flaxman (1793)
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Philippe-Auguste Hennequin  (1800)
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Arcangelo Migliarini (1801)
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Giacomo Macchiavelli (1806)
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Henry Fuseli - Furies Drive Alcmaeon from the Corpse of Eriphyle (1821)
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David Scott - Orestes Pursued by the Furies (1838)
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Carl Rahl (ca. 1852)
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Gustave Doré (undated)
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Arnold Böcklin - Murderer Pursued by Furies (1870)
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Alexander Steshenko (2000s)
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Vee Chayakul (2000s)
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Alexey Ryabinin (2019)
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David Shanahan (2019)
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Joanna Barnum (2019)
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Joaquin Abella (2019)
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The Three Furies
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Alecto - Punisher of moral crimes
Megaera - Punisher of infidelity, oath breakers and theft
Tisiphone - Punisher of murderers

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