Medea and ajax. Johann georg hiltensperger (1806-1890). Wall panel, 1845-1848. No. Lxix. St. Petersburg, the state hermitage museum, gallery of the history of ancient painting, 69. Lxix. Hiltensperger placed timomachus’s medea and ajax in one painting. According to the laws of ancient art, neither in painting nor in the theater was the scene of the murder itself presented to the eyes of the audience. Timomachus depicted the mental anguish of a deceived woman, holding a sword and plotting the death of the children playing in front of her; one of them was reaching out to her for an unprecedented, shiny toy (lucian. On the house, 31). An ancient epigram conveys in detail the impression of timomachus's medea: timomachus took on endless labor to express feelings so dissimilar in her: sometimes compassion, sometimes anger; he succeeded in both: look at the picture: you see how tears in anger, malice shines through in pity. Enough hesitation for me, he wisely decided, let medea's hand, not timomachus', shed childish blood here. Date: 1845—1848 гг..
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