";s:4:"text";s:2883:" Meleager has killed a monstrous boar and presents its head to Atalanta, with whom he has fallen in love. In Greek Mythology the story of Meleager and Atalanta is one intertwined with that of the Calydonian Hunt. 1616; Physical Dimensions: 52 1/2 x 42 in. Meleager and Atalanta Peter Paul Rubens 1635/1637. The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, United States. Find more prominent pieces of mythological painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. This painting, cleaned to reveal its delicate harmonies and vibrant colours, is a copy with slight variants of a large picture on canvas (now in Munich) which Rubens painted in about 1635. Meleager was forced to rescue Atalanta from two centaurs, Hylaeus and Rhaecus, when they attempted to rape the Greek heroine; Meleager killing them both. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Liverpool, United Kingdom . Title: Atalanta and Meleager; Creator: Peter Paul Rubens; Date Created: ca. Learn more about this artwork. Atalanta was one, as was Meleager, the son of King Oeneus. In the background is a snake-haired Fury—a reference to the subsequent feuding over the boar’s hide that will lead to Meleager’s death. The band of Calydonian Hunters though was not a harmonious group, and Meleager had to convince many, including the brothers of his mother, Cometes and Prothous, that Atalanta was worthy of a position amongst the hunters. In Calydon, Meleager was put in charge of the assembled hunters, but even before they set out, Meleager had to deal with a dispute for, Toxeus and Plexippus, the uncles of Meleager, objected to the presence of a woman, Atalanta, in the hunt. ‘Meleager and Atalanta’ was created in 1624 by Jacob Jordaens in Baroque style.
Although a splendid example of Rubens’s depiction of substantial, fleshy bodies, the picture is not in uniformly good condition. The king´s son, Meleager, and his beloved Atalanta organize a hunt with the help of their cousins, Castor and Pollux. Atalanta and Meleager Peter Paul Rubens ca. Atalanta, in Greek mythology, a renowned and swift-footed huntress, probably a parallel and less important form of the goddess Artemis. Download this artwork (provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Traditionally, she was the daughter of Schoeneus of Boeotia or of Iasus and Clymene of Arcadia. 1616. Details. Rubens depicts this passage, distributing the figures in the foreground near the bottom of the composition in order to direct the viewer´s gaze toward the center of the image, where Atalanta, having mortally wounded the animal, sets the dogs on it. This copy was probably made in Rubens’ studio under his supervision. Atalanta, Greek marble statue; in the Louvre Giraudon/Art Resource, New York.