Persephone (painting)
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Persephone is a 1938–1939 painting by the American artist Thomas Hart Benton. It depicts the Greek goddess Persephone resting nude beside a tree in a rural Midwestern landscape while a farmer, standin
Thomas Hart Benton Persephone
Persephone
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In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld after her abduction by her uncle Hades, the king of the underworld, who
Persephone (painting)
…Persephone is a 1938–1939 painting by the American artist Thomas Hart Benton. It depicts the Greek goddess Persephone resting nude beside a tree in a rural Midwestern landscape while a farmer, standing in for Pluto, peeks out from behind the tree. The belief that Benton…
Terracotta votive plaque from Eleusis, 450 BC, NAMA, 190875
Sarcophagus with the abduction of Persephone. Walters Art Museum. Baltimore, Maryland
The Rape of Proserpina by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1621–22) at the Galleria Borghese in Rome
Hades (right) and Persephone (left). Detail from an Attic red-figure amphora, ca. 470 BC. From Italy. Louvre