Английская Википедия:Echo and Narcissus (Poussin)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Refimprove Шаблон:Infobox artwork Echo and Narcissus is an oil painting of 1627 and 1628 by French artist Nicolas Poussin. It measures Шаблон:Cvt and is kept in the Louvre, Paris.

The myth

The work derives from Greek Mythology. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, the nymph Echo fell in love with Narcissus, but he rejected her. Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance, punished Narcissus by making him fall in love with his own reflection.

At the place where he died grew the flower that bears his name: Narcissus.

The painting

Poussin illustrates this myth by representing three characters in an idyllic landscape: in the foreground, Narcissus, lying down; behind him, on the right, Eros, god of love; and on the left, sitting on a rock, Echo. Around the hair of young Narcissus are already blooming flowers to which he gave his name. Echo, leaning on a rock, seems "an elegiac and immaterial apparition".[1]

See also

References

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  1. Шаблон:In lang Andreas Prater, “El Barroco” en Los maestros de la pintura occidental, Taschen, 2005, p.246, Шаблон:ISBN