Pyramus and Thisbe

           Pyramus and Thisbe were only teenagers when they fell in love with each other, deciding to become a couple. Although their parents forbid the relationship between the two children, even a large wall erected between the two properties could not hold love back. After finding a chink in the wall, the teens talk and formulate a plan to run away and live together. The plan is for them to meet at a mull berry tree outside of Babylon. When Thisbe comes to the tree early, she is scared off by a lion and hides. Meanwhile, the lion, nawing on a bloody animal, gets blood on a veil that Thisbe dropped. When the lion leaves the area, Pyramus sees the lion tracks as well as the bloodied veil of Thisbe. Concluding that Thisbe had been killed, Pyramus stabbed himself. After Pyramus is dead Thisbe comes back and sees her dead lover. She then, out of grief throws herself on Pyramus' still warm with blood sword. After their deaths, Ovid brings in the change that around the time of the year that Pyramus and Thisbe died, the mull berry tree's leaves change color from white to red and black.

Daedalus & Icarus In Art!

This Picture has included Daedalus looking like he's flying ahead of Icarus, unaware of the Icarus flying too high and losing his wings. This picture also contains a city, which I assume is Crete because in the text it states that three men looked up, a fisherman, a plowman, and a shepard who were all on Crete. It seems the artist is drawing the sea and sky into Crete, into the treeline and village, as if even though Daedalus can try, he will never truly escape his fate on Crete. Ovid groups the three men together using alliteration to show that they all saw and believe the same thing. Also the artist creates this picture grouping the three men all together on the right bottom corner of the piece. The piece diverges from the Latin by drawing Icarus falling into the sea just off of Crete when realistically he was almost across the Aegean.

The Famous renaissance piece "The Fall of Icarus" is an interesting painting by Brugal. The artist emphasizes all of the painting with larger proportions, while making Icarus, the name of the painting a small drowning boy only half visible in the ocean. The art was mainly meant to describe the little meaning that legends really had on society while also showing how insignificant this legend really was. The artist leaves the text behind by not including Daedalus and making it look so pathetic for Icarus to be drowning where he is.

This sculpture I believe is either of Daedalus looking to the skies for his answer for escaping the tower, or it is of one of the men looking to the skies and seeing their "gods." This sculpture has the effect of making the viewer think that this man is thinking deeply about what he is seeing or isn't. The artist makes this possible by making the man looking up with his head. This piece works from Ovid's story as Daedalus looks towards the heavens.