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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1962986, member: 5833"]I feel like we've seen this cameo in the thread before, but maybe not. Quite a production. Suspect it is 20th century as the elements are from the traditional vocabulary but are combined in a way that doesn't correspond to any episode from mythology I can think of, something you see in cameos made after their real heyday. Imagine cutters began to lose knowledge of the stories & conventions while having gained knowledge of what sells. Also, post-WWI was a time of liberation, so maybe they also felt free to express their own visions & fantasies. There are images of Zeus, in the form of an eagle (or the eagle who serves Zeus) carrying someone off, but the someone is usually Ganymede.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]246632[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1962986, member: 5833"]I feel like we've seen this cameo in the thread before, but maybe not. Quite a production. Suspect it is 20th century as the elements are from the traditional vocabulary but are combined in a way that doesn't correspond to any episode from mythology I can think of, something you see in cameos made after their real heyday. Imagine cutters began to lose knowledge of the stories & conventions while having gained knowledge of what sells. Also, post-WWI was a time of liberation, so maybe they also felt free to express their own visions & fantasies. There are images of Zeus, in the form of an eagle (or the eagle who serves Zeus) carrying someone off, but the someone is usually Ganymede. [ATTACH=full]246632[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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