Tuesday, March 24, 2009

mystery woodcut

6 comments:

  1. Quite the bacchanal! Look at her snake anklette.

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  2. ...and her shoes...and her peacock fan...and....

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  3. Her consort looks like Christopher Eccleston!

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  4. I think Hera. The Peacock is the give away. The rest of the symbology relates to multiple goddesses, but Hera is queen - she can use them all! The guy, on the other hand, is more problemic. If the feather was a peacock, then we'd know it's, _____(sorry I can't recall his name and a quick search isn't doing any good either).

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  5. Actually, it's Scheherazade. I'm sure because I found a small print of it at an Antique Co-op a few years ago, and it's labelled. Unfortunately I don't remember the artist's name & the print is packed up!

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  6. Ah, that is wonderful Katie! Thank you, I love the story of Scheherazade. Still couldn't come up with the artist's name using that as a search...

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