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O mito de Pigmalião e Galatéia é utilizado na Psicologia e Filosofia quando se fala sobre a idealização do ser amado, e que quanto mais desejado e perseguido, acaba por tornar-se personificado, assim como Pigmalião que tanto amou e desejou Galatéia que conseguiu por fim que ela ganhasse vida.
Pigmalião e Galateia: um mito de transformação pessoal. O mito de Pigmalião é um antigo conto grego sobre um escultor talentoso que se apaixona pela estátua da mulher que criou. Ao rezar à deusa do amor, Afrodite, Pigmalião vê a sua estátua ganhar vida, o que o transforma profundamente.
Pigmalião[ 1][ 2][ 3][ 4] ou Pigmaleão (grafia menos correta, tendo em conta a etimologia do latim Pygmalion, -onis, do grego Pugmalíon, -onos[ 5][ 2] ), na mitologia grega, foi um rei da ilha de Chipre, [ 6][ 7] que, segundo Ovídio, poeta romano contemporâneo de Augusto, também era escultor e se apaixonou por uma estátua que ...
- The Strange Sculptor
- Falling in Love with His Own Creation
- The Realization of His Dream
- The Influence of The Myth on The Arts
Pygmalion was a sculptor par excellence, a man who gave to every one of his ivory a life-like appearance. His deep devotion to his art spared him no time to admire the beauty of women. His sculptures were the only beauty he knew. For reasons known only to him, Pygmalion despised and shunned women, finding solace only in his craft. In fact, he was s...
One fine day, Pygmalion carved the statue of a woman of unparalleled beauty. She looked so gentle and divine that he could not take his eyes off the statue. Enchanted with his own creation, he felt waves of joy and desire sweeping over his body and in a moment of inspiration he named the figurine, Galatea, meaning "she who is white like milk". He d...
In the meanwhile, the celebration of goddess Aphrodite was fast approaching and preparations were well under way. On the day of the festival, while making offerings to goddess Aphrodite, Pygmalion prayed with all his heart and soul, beseeching the goddess that she turns his ivory figurine into a real woman. Touched by his deep veneration, Aphrodite...
The story of Pygmalion and Galatea was made famous by Ovid in his famous work, Metamorphoses. However, the name Galatea was ascribed to the figurine only in the 18th century and gained prominence through Jean-Jacque Rousseau's opera, Pygmalion (1762). Another famous work that is based on this myth is the play "Educating Rita", written by Willy Russ...
Pygmalion and Galatea. Jean-Léon Gérôme French. ca. 1890. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 800. Between 1890 and 1892, Gérôme made both painted and sculpted variations on the theme of Pygmalion and Galatea, the tale recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Pygmalion ran into Galatea and tightly embraced and kissed her. Surprisingly, it was not the hardness of the ivory that he felt but the warmth and firmness of her flesh. His touch left a print on her skin and exuded a smile with a blush painted all over Galatea’s beautiful face.
Pygmalion and Galatea: plot summary. There are actually two Pygmalions in classical mythology. The first one was a king of Tyre, the son of Mutto and the brother of Elissa. Elissa is better-known to us as Dido, of the Dido and Aeneas love story. But that Pygmalion is not the famous one.
