Pygmalion and Galatea (play)
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Pygmalion and Galatea, an Original Mythological Comedy is a blank verse play by W. S. Gilbert in three acts based on the Pygmalion story. It opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 9 December 187
The Kendals in the title roles, 1871
W. S. Gilbert in about 1870
Julia Marlowe as Galatea in a US production
The awakening of Galatea, by Herbert Gustave Schmalz.
Pygmalion (mythology)
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In classical mythology, Pygmalion was a legendary Phoenician figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a s
Pygmalion and Galatea (play)
…Pygmalion and Galatea, an Original Mythological Comedy is a blank verse play by W. S. Gilbert in three acts based on the Pygmalion story. It opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 9 December 1871 and ran for a very successful 184 performances. It was revived many times…
Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717
Étienne Maurice Falconet: Pygmalion et Galatée (1763)
Pygmalion and Galatea by Girodet
The Origin of Sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1786, Musée National du Château et des Trianons