{"id":5512,"date":"2014-03-21T18:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2015-07-18T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T08:00:25","slug":"this-hercules-by-lucas-cranach-currently-under-restoration-in-madrid-is-the-oldest-ancestor-of-cindy-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/21\/this-hercules-by-lucas-cranach-currently-under-restoration-in-madrid-is-the-oldest-ancestor-of-cindy-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"This unconventional &#8220;Hercules&#8221; currently under restoration in Madrid is the oldest ancestor of Cindy Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5512 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/21\/this-hercules-by-lucas-cranach-currently-under-restoration-in-madrid-is-the-oldest-ancestor-of-cindy-sherman\/1929-15\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1929.15.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Hans Cranach, \u201cHercules at the Court of Omphale\u201d, 1537. Oil on panel. 57.5 x 85.3 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5513\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5513'>\n\t\t\t\tHans Cranach, \u201cHercules at the Court of Omphale\u201d, 1537. Oil on panel. 57.5 x 85.3 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/21\/this-hercules-by-lucas-cranach-currently-under-restoration-in-madrid-is-the-oldest-ancestor-of-cindy-sherman\/tumblr_mmw3gm4p9d1qae3xeo1_1280\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_mmw3gm4p9d1qae3xeo1_1280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Cindy Sherman, Untitled #397, 2000. Chromogenic color print; 91.4x61cm\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5514\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5514'>\n\t\t\t\tCindy Sherman, Untitled #397, 2000. Chromogenic color print; 91.4x61cm\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.museothyssen.org\/en\/thyssen\/estudios_tecnicos\" target=\"_blank\">restoration<\/a>\u00a0of a painting by Lucas Cranach has just began at the museum Tyhssen Bornemitza in Madrid.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1.8rem; line-height: 3rem;\">The artwork is titled &#8220;Hercules at the Court of Omphale&#8221;, and it could have been conceived by a contemporary artist interested in anthropology. The protagonist is Hercules, hero of Greek mythology, who in this framework is presented in the rare version of the anti-hero. The popularity of Hercules, in our imagination, is in fact linked to his labor and adventures. In this painting, instead, one of his misfortunes is represented:\u00a0due to the killing of his friend Iphitus, he was sentenced for three years to be the slave of Queen Omphale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Greek literature, he was forced to be what we would today call a toy boy of the queen (she had three children by him), and to be dressed as a woman, doing female tasks such as spinning and carding wool. From an artistic standpoint we are facing a case of transvestism in ancient art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The\u00a0restoration\u00a0of a painting by Lucas Cranach has just began at the museum Tyhssen Bornemitza in Madrid.\u00a0The artwork is titled &#8220;Hercules at the Court of Omphale&#8221;, and it could have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[1658,1657],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-cindy-sherman","tag-lucas-cranach"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}