Thus Making It Very Difficult To Draw Them - Tumblr Posts
10 months ago
Thetis with the arms of Achilles
I saw several mosaics depicting this motive and decided to try my hand at it as well.
Also, I just find Thetis to be quite interesting as a character. There’s gotta be something fundamentally Tragic about raising a child, knowing that he will most likely die very young.
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There is this strange (culturally catholic I think) thought to draw parallels between her and the virgin Mary
but I don’t know how to properly articulate or build on this idea…
also
sidenote
but I’m cursing Homer for having the ekphrases in the iliad be more living scene than static image
thus making it very difficult to draw them
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