In the literary imagination, however, the heroine’s complexion - TopicsExpress



          

In the literary imagination, however, the heroine’s complexion was already changing. The Roman poet Ovid clearly refers to her as dark-skinned more than once. During the early Renaissance her ethnic identity continued in this direction. The process began with the Italian humanist author Petrarch in the 14th century who, perhaps inspired by Ovid, explicitly described her as black. Three centuries later the Dutch artist Abraham van Diepenbeeck finally gave visual form to this new interpretive turn. The dark body of Andromeda is shown chained to the rock in his illustration of her intended sacrifice in The Temple of the Muses, an erudite treatment of classical subjects composed by the French scholar Michel de Marolles.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:19:27 +0000

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