Pygmalion & Galatée, Gérôme, 1890 (NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art) from
Pygmalion & Galatée, Gérôme, 1890 (NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art) from Métamorphoses, Ovide. echoes Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw), & My Fair Lady (wonderful movie with the divine Audrey Hepburn). Can also at some points echoes to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: when the artist falls in love with his own creation. // the danger of narcissism. -- source link
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