Gustav Klimt
Isis, Ancient Egypt, 1891.
Oil on canvas, affixed to wall
Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic
pantheon of Egypt. She was first worshiped in Ancient Egyptian religion, and
later her worship spread throughout the Roman Empire and the greater
Greco-Roman world. Isis is still widely worshiped by many pagans today in
diverse religious contexts.
Isis
was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature
and magic. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans and the downtrodden,
but she also listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and
rulers. Isis is often depicted as the mother of Horus, the falcon-headed deity
associated with king and kingship. Isis is also known as protector of the dead
and goddess of children.
Gustav Klimt
Detail: Isis, Ancient Egypt, 1891.
Oil on canvas, affixed to wall
Kunsthistorisches Museum.
The
name Isis means "Throne". Her headdress is a throne. As the
personification of the throne, she was an important representation of the
pharaoh's power. The pharaoh was depicted as her child, who sat on the throne
she provided. Her cult was popular throughout Egypt, but her most important
temples were at Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile delta, and, beginning in the reign
with Nectanebo I (380–362 BCE), on the island of Philae in Upper Egypt.
In the typical form of her myth, Isis was the first daughter
of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, goddess of the Sky, and she was born on the
fourth intercalary day. She married her brother, Osiris, and she conceived
Horus with him. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection of Osiris when he was
murdered by Set. Using her magical skills, she restored his body to life after
having gathered the body parts that had been strewn about the earth by Set. More on Isis
Gustav Klimt
Detail: Isis, Ancient Egypt, 1891.
Oil on canvas, affixed to wall
Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 –
February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the
most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his
paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject
was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition
to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted
landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most
influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter
of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more
personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when
the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the
University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted
no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of
his "golden phase," many of which include gold leaf. More Gustav Klimt
After the death of Klimt, the writer and art critic Berta
Tsukerkandl wrote in the Vienna newspaper Wiener Zeitung: "One of the
greatest died. A simple hero. Quiet , tenacious fighter. Invincible. Winner.
[...] The death of Klimt permeates our souls as something incomprehensible , as
the desecration of wonderful gift , prepodnesonnogo humanity.
" The
Leopold Museum
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