Showing posts with label isle of lesbos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label isle of lesbos. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

The poet Sappho and her lyre from Lydia

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This is my newest painting of the poet Sappho from the isle of Lesbos and her magic lyre from Lydia (the actual Turkey)
Monday, June 3, 2019

My acrylics on canvas painting of Abanthis playing lyre for Gongyla

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Please Abanthis your Sappho calls you: Won't you take your Lydian lyre and play Another song to Gongyla while desire still flutters ...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

A girl form Sappho's thaissos on the isle of Lesbos singing

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This is my painting of a girl from Sappho's thaissos on the isle of Lesbos, wearing a soft white dress and flowers in her hair, singin...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

A girl from Sappho's thaissos playing harp on the isle of Lesbos, next to the sea

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I've made this thinking about one of the girls the poet Sappho used to teach the art of femininity, imagining she is there, on the i...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

To Atthis, a poem written by Sappho and two ball point pen drawings

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These drawings are about the sad story of a girl who had to leave Sappho's thaissos to marry a man who was living somewhere in S...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Sappho and the girl who had to leave the isle of Lesbos

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Sappho and one of her muses, in the sad moment when the girl had to leave against her will, acrylics on canvas painting. The poem bel...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Sappho and Gongyla

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Looking at my painting I wish I was Gongyla
Friday, November 14, 2014

My drawings and paintings of the poet Sappho and some words about the censorship of her poems

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Sappho and Gongyla, acrylics on canvas painting These are mai painting of the poet Sappho from the Isle of Lesbos. I don't know if...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Sappho and Gongyla

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This is my balpoint pen drawing of the poet Sappho and Gongyla, one of her girlfriends. I have a tempera painting too. This is the poe...