#Caravaggio Narcissus

[sofancydancy]

Narcissus - digital painting; 12 hours

Detail shots below cut, or swipe on mobile to see! Astarion fresh from his grave... Another version can be found here.

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"After it all, I sat by a river. My hands were muddied and bruised, bleeding. I peered into the water and saw nothing. My very face was taken from me--my image. I wept, endless. Then, he came."

[mochiwei]

OOT Link as “Narcissus” by Caravaggio (1597-1599).

For the Atelier Hylia Blood Moon Tomes zine, available for free on their Twitter!

[cursed-and-haunted]

Narcissus

[skelecha1rs]

Narcissus, Caravaggio, 1597–1599

Oil on canvas 110cm × 92cm (43in × 36in)

[mishapen-dear]

skeppy who?

[doalkaynaksuyu]

narcissus

[mokkkki]

swte's narcissa black

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

art history moodboard – narcissus

for @sanguine-prince

visit the art museum

Narcissus – Caravaggio // Arranging Daffodils – Carl Thomsen // Narcissus Gazing at His Reflection – Dirck van Baburen // Yellow Narcissus – Barbara Regina Dietzsch // Narcissus – Magnus Enckell // Still Life with Flowers in a Glass – Jan Brueghel the Elder // Narcissus – Johann Heinrich Tischbein // Daffodils – Mary Hiester Reid // Narcissus – Gyula Benczúr

[crimsonimpasto]

Caravaggio, Narcissus, c. 1600

[tethered-heartstrings]

Narcissus by Caravaggio x My cat, Midna

[slightlyplant]

artist-muse relationship ended with tohri. i am my own muse now >:)

[mochiwei]

Pieces I made for @atelierhylia’s master study zines!! Please check out the zine, it’s free to download and a joy to read through!

1. BOTW Temple of Time as Sebastian Pether’s “Moonlit Lake with a Ruined Gothic Church, a Church and Boatmen,” 1827 (cropped).

2. OOT Link as “Narcissus” by Caravaggio (1597-1599).

3. BOTW Link and Zelda as “Paolo e Virginia” by Alessandro Puttinati.

[isawken]

gender

[pmamtraveller]

NARCISSUS (c.1599) by CARAVAGGIO

NARCISSUS is one of the most famous GREEK mythological figures. He was a hunter who fell in love with a reflection of himself. When NARCISSUS realized he could not possess the image he had fallen in love with, he died of despair and turned into a flower.

CARAVAGGIO'S portrait of the GREEK mythological figure NARCISSUS uses his signature tenebrism (extreme contrasts between light and shade) and isolation to create a captivating image of the final act of the story of NARCISSUS

In many of NARCISSUS' other paintings, artists depict the landscape of the forest, sometimes with animals or other human-like creatures in the background. However, CARAVAGGIO strips away all but the pool of water from the story’s setting. Instead, he focuses on NARCISSUS himself, mirroring NARCISSUS’ own enchantment by his image.

In contrast to the black background that obscures the netherworld, the GREEK hunter is painted with bright colours and illuminated by the spotlight. Just like he is captivated by his reflection, the viewer can only be captivated by him.

The darkness of the water that NARCISSUS stares into is a sign of his coming doom. His face is hard to read in the reflection, as if the water, deceptive as it is, is not a place for a man to live or love. While one of NARCISSUS’ hands is placed on the ground, though dangerously close to the water, his other hand dares to touch his reflection.

When NARCISSUS leans towards the body of water, his calm face conveying the state of hypnosis he has fallen into, the viewer perceives a threat to come, even if there is no external threat.The danger is within NARCISSUS himself, and as he sits isolated from the world, he too will die isolated from the world.

[raskti]

De Profundis, Oscar Wilde (1897 [1905]) / Narcissus, Caravaggio (1597- 99) / Narcissus, Helen Thornycroft (1876) / Echo and Narcissus, William Waterhouse (1903) / Divine Looser, Clem Turner (2021) / The fall of Icarus, Jacob Peter Gowy (1635- 37) / Saint Sebastian, Gerrit van Honthorst (ca 1623) / Humanitad, Oscar Wilde (ca 1890)

[killingmoon]

i and i - bayside / lord byron / narcissus - caravaggio / richard iii - william shakespeare / i and i - bob dylan