Judgement of Paris
The Judgment of Paris is an episode of Greek mythology and one of the most famous mythological judgment similar decisions.
Greek Mythology
All the gods are invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, except Eris, the " goddess of discord ." Thus insulted, throws from the door a golden apple with the inscription Kallista (Greek: " The Most Beautiful ", "For the fairest " ) under the celebrating gods of the Greek Olympus. Then there is a dispute between Aphrodite, Pallas Athena and Hera, whom fees that apple (hence bone of contention / apple of discord ). Zeus as the highest Olympic instance withdraws from the affair and sets the judgment in the hands of a mortal: It determines the innocent youth Paris, the beautiful, though outcast son of the Trojan king Priam and Hecuba, as arbitrators. So he carries on Hermes to bring the goddesses to the prince of Troy, so this decide.
To win the prince for himself, each of the goddesses tried to bribe him, and offers him a price. Hera promised him dominion over the world, Athena promises wisdom, Aphrodite, however, Paris has the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. With this reward Aphrodite can decide the judgment for themselves. This most beautiful mortal, Helena, however, was already married to Menelaus, the mighty king of Sparta.
This treacherous promises and the need to carry out the theft of Helen to have been the cause of the Trojan War.
The Paris - judgment in art
The Judgement of Paris is a topic often depicted in Greek vase painting. Even in post-ancient times it was used as the subject of many paintings and sculptures. Well-known examples are:
- Sandro Botticelli, 1445-1510, oil painting
- Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), oil painting
- Lucas Cranach the Elder. , 1472-1553, oil painting 1530, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- Copper engraving by 1515/16 by Marcantonio Raimondi, 1474-1534
- Niklaus Manuel German to 1484-1530, oil painting around 1517 /18, Kunstmuseum Basel
- Frans Floris de Vriendt, 1517-1570, oil painting
- Hendrick van Balen, 1575-1632, oil painting
- By Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640, to, inter alia, as titled oil painting found in Madrid's Prado Museum and the Washington National Gallery of Art
- The Judgment of Paris was a popular motif in Baroque painting, but it offered the opportunity to map three naked women in different poses.
- By Massimiliano Soldani Benzi - a bronze to 1695/1700
- Francesco Fontebasso, 1709-1768, oil painting
- Martin Johann Schmidt, 1718-1801, oil painting
- Arnold Böcklin, 1827-1901, oil painting
- Anselm Feuerbach, 1829-1880, oil painting
- Henri Fantin -Latour, 1836-1904, oil painting
- Hans von Marées, 1837-1887, oil paintings, as looted art in the possession of Russia
- 1886/87 created Max Klinger, 1857-1920, painter, engraver and sculptor, a corresponding paintings.
- Enrique Simonet, 1866-1927, oil painting
- Karl Stachelscheid, 1917-1970, oil paintings, impressionism Rhine, Dusseldorf
- In the 19th century Paris in Jacques Offenbach's operetta " La belle Hélène " celebrated a recurrence.
- By Otto Wilhelm Reuther there is a musical comedy in one act with music by Cesar Bresgen ( Germany, 1943)
- Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech composer, wrote an eponymous opera ( 1953).
- The sculptor Markus Liipertz created a sculpture " Judgment of Paris ", consisting of several statues that today Swissôtel (architect Meinhard von Gerkan ) graces on the Berlin Kurfürstendamm
Paris quadrifolia
The Herb Paris owes its Latin name to the fact that the judgment of Paris, a man (flower / berry ) of four deities ( leaves ), namely, Hermes, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite was surrounded.
Swell
In the Homeric Iliad is only in book 24, 28-30 alluded to the subject, while it was treated in the comedy often.