Alcyone

 

Vittore Carpaccio - Metamorphosis of Alcyone (ca. 1505)

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Crispijn van de Passe the Elder - Alcyone Praying fot the Safe Return of Ceyx (ca 1605)

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Antonio Tempesta - Alcyone Offering Prayers to Juno (1606)

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Antonio Tempesta - Morpheus Disguised as Ceyx Appearing to Alcyone (1606)

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Johann Wilhelm Baur (1641)

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Crispijn van de Passe the Younger - Alcyone Finds the Body of Ceyx (mid 17th C.)

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Carle van Loo (1750)

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Richard Wilson (1768)

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Pierre Audouin (1801)

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Charles Meynier (early 19th C.)

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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg - Alcyone's Dream (ca. 1813)

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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg - Alcyone's Farewell (1813)

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Herbert James Draper (1915)

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Helen Stratton (1915)

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George Barbier (early 20th C.)

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Troy Howell (1980s)

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Steve Mitchell (2010)

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Halcyon Days

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John Buxton (1880s)

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William Kay Blacklock (early 20th C.)

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Russell Flint (1937)

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Richard Greathouse (2018)

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Mireille Salti (2020)

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Louise Thorpe (undated)

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Viljami Heinonen (2021)

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Helen Latham (2020s)

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Alcyone and Ceyx

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Morpheus, the god of dreams, disguised as Ceyx, appeared to Alcyone, a Thessalian princess, to tell her of her husband's fate. In her grief she threw herself into the sea. Out of compassion, the gods changed them both into "halcyon birds" (kingfishers)

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Halcyon Days

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The fourteen days each year in midwinter when storms never occur, and during which Alcyone (as a kingfisher) made her nest on the beach

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