Student: Kawtar El Ouahrani Oggadi. Level: 4° A. Date: Monday 2nd November 2015.
Work Title: Sleep of Endymion.
Artist: Anne-Louis Girodet.
Date: 1791
Kind of Work: Picture.
Artistic Style: Neoclassicism.
Description: Endymion is known as the most beautiful celebrity in the mythology. We can see that there is a nude man in which is reflect a moon ray.
He is on a garden lie down above a tiger. Next to his feet ties to a sandal it is a fox. And finally in the darkness there is an angel.
Historical context: This work is different from the other works because of it nature, beauty, sensuality and colors. This things weren't very usual in this age. Anyone Never before painted a man with this sensuality and with a woman position.
This work was made to show people that men can have the same or more sensuality as women.
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