{"id":13859,"date":"2013-06-05T02:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13859"},"modified":"2013-06-06T01:51:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T00:51:46","slug":"transformations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/06\/05\/transformations\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Transformation of Actaeon (no date) by Jean Mignon.<\/em><\/p>\n

More gleanings from one of the better provinces of the Google Empire (unless and until they abandon it…), these being recent additions to the Google Art Project from the Museum Kunstpalast<\/a> in D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n

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Jean Mignon’s etching shows Diana’s transformation of Actaeon into a stag as punishment for his catching her bathing. This is one of those scenes where subsequent developments are shown in the background of the same picture, in this case poor Actaeon’s pursuit and death at the jaws of his own dogs. Off to the side there’s the curious detail of a pissing-boy statue like the famous Manneken Pis<\/em><\/a> in Brussels.<\/p>\n

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Circe Transforms Odysseus\u2019 Companions into Animals (1650\u20131655) by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.<\/em><\/p>\n

Castiglione’s etching shows another transmutation from Greek myth although these sailors appear to have evaded the usual fate of being turned into swine. The artist gives Circe a wand and a collection of occult tomes.<\/p>\n

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Lovers in a Grotto, Surrounded by Plants and Herb (c. 1830\u20131835) by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kolbe the Elder’s piece is a strange example of Surrealism avant la lettre<\/em> in which the garden plants have assumed Food of the Gods<\/em> proportions. The picture note says this was a specialty of Kolbe’s, and the effect is so striking I’m surprised I’ve not seen it mentioned before as a Surrealist precursor.<\/p>\n

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The Transformation of Actaeon (no date) by Jean Mignon. More gleanings from one of the better provinces of the Google Empire (unless and until they abandon it…), these being recent additions to the Google Art Project from the Museum Kunstpalast in D\u00fcsseldorf. Jean Mignon’s etching shows Diana’s transformation of Actaeon into a stag as punishment … Continue reading “Transformations”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[4856,4855,4854,4853],"class_list":["post-13859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","tag-carl-wilhelm-kolbe-the-elder","tag-giovanni-benedetto-castiglione","tag-google-art-project","tag-jean-mignon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}