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Hesione Painting
Netherlands
Painting, Oil on Cardboard
Size: 12 W x 9.5 H x 0.1 D in
Ships in a Crate
About The Artwork
Hesione was the daughter of King Laomedon of Troy. Her father had the gods Poseidon and Apollon erect a wall for his city, but refused to pay the stipulated wages after its construction. So Poseidon sent a sea monster that destroyed the land. To satisfy the wrath of the gods, Hesione, on the advice of the oracle of Apollon, should be sacrificed to this monster. Heracles, who had just returned from his journey to the Amazons, arrived in Troy and took it upon himself to rescue Hesione. After Heracles saved Hesione, Laomedon refused to keep his promise. Therefore, having gathered a fleet of ships and a number of great heroes from Greece, the hero advanced against Laomedon and succeeded in capturing the city. Laomedon and all his sons, except Podarkes, were slain, and Hesione fell to the victor. Heracles, however, did not keep it for himself, but gave it to his friend Telamon, who had faithfully assisted him in the conquest of the city.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Cardboard
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:12 W x 9.5 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Shipping & Returns
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Netherlands.
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Netherlands
Ton Bartels is a Dutch artist. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, where he graduated in 1978. He lives and works in Houten, Netherlands. Characteristic are his artistic reconfigurations of well-known iconic images from Greek mythology with forays into other art history subjects. Ton Bartels’ posthistorical work carefully examines the linearity of the historical perspective embedded in our visual understanding of the past. Alternately described as both ‘an unfettered spirit turned artist’ and ‘a contemporary iconoclastic’, his art takes a space beyond our traditional understanding of history to become a bridge between different eras and its new form of visual language. Bartels’ hybrid aesthetic is challenging. He uses a high level of craftsmanship that is based on classical techniques in combination with a twenty-first-century view of the possibilities of image editing, in which an almost Fauvist brushwork is leading.
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