10 Jun 2022 Jahr - 109/ A voyage to Cythera (1): among poets, painters and musicians

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“And so we sailed on joyously, totally plunged and sunk in this unbridled desire, until our prosperous voyage brought us to the delicious Cytherean Isle.” Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (3, p.289)

This post explores the number of identified artists inspired by the mythical island of Cythera, where lovers went to worship the Goddess of Love Aphrodite/Venus at her temple. The theme has been popular in pictorial arts, where the paintings of Antoine WATTEAU (1684-1721) - ‘L’Embarquement pour Cythère’, 1717, Paris and its replica ca. 1718-19 in Berlin - are now confirmed masterpieces. The narrative was already well-known in the sister-arts (novel, poem, theatre, music, ballet). Fig.1 shows a quantitative approach: the data visualization of the cumulative number of both type of artists from 1500 to the present (1.a b c).
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