SUFFERING IN WESTERN ART: THREE TRANSFORMATIONS
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CLASSICAL CULTURE, THE CHRISTIAN ERA, RECENT PERIODSAbstract
The suffering resulting from transgression is represented in some important instances by Greek visual artists, and the young girl falling to her knees as she vainly tries to pluck an arrow from her back is an example (PI: 1). She is a daughter of Niobe, a woman fortunate in the number of her children, having six sons and six daughters.
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Hulius Held, “Prometheus Bound”, Philadaliphia Museum of Art Bulletin 59, Autumn 1963, pp.17-32.
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Denis Grivot and George Zarnecki, Gislebertus, Sculptor of Autumn, 1961.
John R. Martin (ed:); Rubens: The Antwertp Altarpieces, 1969, Pls. I and II and passim.
