Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
[x]

deviantART

 

Agamemnon and Iphigenia by ~PheobeMeryll:iconPheobeMeryll:

Categories Fan Art > Traditional Art > Drawings > Books/Novels

©2008-2010 ~PheobeMeryll
:iconpheobemeryll:

Artist's Comments

This is kind of a fan-art-ish picture of Agamemnon and Iphigenia. If you don't know the story, you should look it up, but the basic thing is that Artemis has demanded that Agamemnon sacrifice Iphigenia, his daughter. (He does it, too.) I based it off of a photo I found from a performance of the Oresteia (three plays about the house of Atreus), so it's not completely my own interpretation.

Comments


love 0 0 joy 0 0 wow 0 0 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:iconcelticabria:
~celticabria Jul 20, 2008, 11:07:59 PM
Ohhhh bravo!!
Bravo!!
Of corse we know that story. The drawing is really beautiful, but you should have shown more ambition in Agammenon's face I think... he was able to kill her own child for glory and victory!!

--
"Del sufrimiento han surgido las almas mas fuertes. Los carácteres sólidos están plagados de cicatrices" K. Gibran

Mhuire
:iconladywinter:
~LadyWinter Jul 20, 2008, 11:42:20 PM
ooh lovely work! I like how you drew Iphigenia.

--
Avatar made by ^Damaged927
:iconstargate4ever23:
*stargate4ever23 Jul 21, 2008, 6:41:48 AM
again with that anatomy! The arms...and the legs, and the feet and especially the hands, and the faces too! Everything is just so good and you don't need a reference 24-7 to draw either! You're so good. ^.^ :hug: :clap:

--
I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.
*************
A hug is the perfect gift, it says everything...and it doesn't make you fat.
:iconlotrsavvy:
*lotrsavvy Jul 21, 2008, 6:56:36 AM
so sad. :(

--
I am taking commissions!

Romans 5:8 : But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
:iconpheobemeryll:
~PheobeMeryll Jul 21, 2008, 7:43:01 AM
thanks! :glomp:

--
Three Five Zero Zero
:iconpheobemeryll:
~PheobeMeryll Jul 21, 2008, 7:46:23 AM
thank you! :O_o: :blush: Coming from an artist as good as you, that's a big compliment. :hug:

--
Three Five Zero Zero
:iconstargate4ever23:
*stargate4ever23 Jul 21, 2008, 9:10:12 AM
ur welcome. :)

--
I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.
*************
A hug is the perfect gift, it says everything...and it doesn't make you fat.
:iconpheobemeryll:
~PheobeMeryll Jul 21, 2008, 3:32:28 PM
Thank you!

Yes...that was the reason I said it was kind of a "fan fiction" picture. Because according to Homer and a lot of the Greek writers, the fact that Agamemnon was able to kill his own child was something to be proud of, like you said. But I think that he must have had some misgivings or sadness at the fact that he had to kill his own daughter...at least, that's how I imagine it. So I made him sad-looking. It's just one interpretation. Yours is probably more true to the legends, but I like looking at legends from different points of view, too. :)

--
Three Five Zero Zero
:iconcelticabria:
~celticabria Jul 22, 2008, 12:15:41 AM
:D

Ok, that's right, actually he didn't enjoy the idea from? what I can remember.... Iigenia was her favourite!

So that's not bad at all!!!

PS. Please correct my english, don't wanna arrive in Ireland and make people neither think I'm talking in english neither doing so. :S

--
"Del sufrimiento han surgido las almas mas fuertes. Los carácteres sólidos están plagados de cicatrices" K. Gibran

Mhuire
Previous Page12Next Page

Details

July 20, 2008
84.1 KB
84.1 KB
532×371

Statistics

16
3 [who?]
144 (0 today)
0 (0 today)

Share

Link
Embed
Thumb

Site Map

©2010 deviantART. All rights reserved
About Us | Contact Us | Site Tour | Help & FAQ Advertise | Services Etiquette | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Copyright Policy