![]() ![]() Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. An example of this trope appears in William Shakespeare's play, The Winter's Tale, where the king of Sicily is presented with an extremely lifelike statue of his wife (which is actually his long-presumed dead wife). This trope was inherited by writers on art after the Renaissance. ![]() The trope of a sculpture so life-like that it seemed about to move was a commonplace with writers on works of art in antiquity. The moral anecdote of the " Apega of Nabis", recounted by the historian Polybius, described a supposed mechanical simulacrum of the tyrant's wife, that crushed victims in her embrace. The story of the breath of life in a statue has parallels in the examples of Daedalus, who used quicksilver to install a voice in his statues or to make them move of Hephaestus, who created automata for his workshop of Talos, an artificial man of bronze, and (according to Hesiod) of Pandora, who was made from clay at the behest of Zeus. In the story of Dido, Pygmalion is an evil king. Perhaps he drew on the lost narrative by Philostephanus that was paraphrased by Clement of Alexandria. Ovid's mention of Paphos suggests that he was drawing on a more circumstantial account than the source for a passing mention of Pygmalion in Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheke, a Hellenic mythography of the 2nd-century AD. In some versions, Paphos was a son, and they also had a daughter, Metharme. In Ovid's narrative, they had a daughter, Paphos, from whom the city's name is derived. Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture, which changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. There, too afraid to admit his desire, he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". In time, Aphrodite's festival day came and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. Pygmalion kisses and fondles the sculpture, brings it various gifts, and creates a sumptuous bed for it. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. Post-classical sources name her Galatea.Īccording to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion ( / p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən/ Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus, who was a king and a sculptor. Moreover, he also appeared in different movies like Sid and Nancy, The Color of Money, Hardware, The Crow: City of Angels, The Rugrats Movies, Snow Day, Coffee and Cigarettes, etc.Īnd, he has also shown his acting talent in different television shows too.įor his amazing dedication and contribution, he has won many awards over his career including the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Award, and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717 Apart from it, he has also many amazing singles that are popular with today’s generation too. They performed in different stages and had a great impact on the generation.įurther, talking about his individual journey, he has also released solo albums like The Idiot, Lust for Life, Kill City, New Values, Soldier, Party, Blah-Blah-Blah, Instinct, Brick by Brick, American Caesar, Naughty Little Doggie, Avenue B, Skull Ring, Preliminaries, Apres, Free, etc. Some of the other albums with the band are Fun House, Raw Power, The Weirdness, and Ready to Die. The band flourished and later signed with Elektra Records and also released their debut album named The Stooges. He also formed a band named Psychedelic Stooges along with the members Ron Asheton, Scott, and Dave Alexander. Caption: The Stooges band (Source: The Guardian)Īfter moving to Chicago she started learning more about blues and playing the blues clubs.
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