Apr. 12th, 2009

Painting

Apr. 12th, 2009 12:23 pm
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This Friday, [livejournal.com profile] jennyaxe, [livejournal.com profile] citikas, [profile] shady_fox and I went to the National Museum in Stockholm to watch their special exhibition on the Pre-Rafaelite Brotherhood. Which was nice. That art is a lot more interesting than most from that time. If you don't know what it looks like, one of the more famous examples is Millais' Ophelia.You almost certainly have seen that one, and/or one of the works it has inspired (like the video to Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue's Where the Wild Roses Grow).

Anyway.

Once we'd walked through that (and [livejournal.com profile] jennyaxe and [livejournal.com profile] citikas had done some hard-core textile geeking over it), we went on to have a look at the rest of the stuff in the museum. Or, rather, as much as we could stand before getting too tired. And one of the things we found, in an unassuming glass case in a small room, was Peter Paul Rubens' The Discovery of the Child Erichthonius by the Daughters of Cecrops. Which at first look seemed like your average Greek myth image from the time. Until one of us (I think it was [profile] shady_fox) noticed that the child has tentacles. Dude! That's like, Lovecraftian hentai horror from 1616!

Just goes to show that there really is nothing new under the sun.

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