Showing posts with label sappho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sappho. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2009

Sappho, Erinna and the maidens celebrating Aphrodite

This is my watercolor painting of Sappho, Erinna(a poet who was her student) and two of the young maidens Sappho used to initiate in the beautiful art of poetry and feminity in the temple of Aphrodite, celebrating the goddess.
I've made this afther I read the poem "Hymn to Aphrodite" by Sappho
.This is the way I imagine Sappho and the young girls singing this hymn and Aphrodite coming down to the temple to listen to their praiers

Sappho and her lyre

This is my drawing of the great poet Sappho with her lyre

Sappho and one of the young girls


This is my pencil drawing of Sappho and one of the maidens she used to initiate in the art of poetry and music and everything that is beauty and feminity

Friday, April 24, 2009

Sappho


This is my painting of the great poet Sappho and one of the young maidens who were initiated in the art of poetry and music by her.Unfortunately this painting was stollen during an artshow