Archives: Pig Artists

Andrea Alciato, Italian (1492-1550), works include: Emblematum Libellus. Alciato was a jurist and writer and is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists. Alciato is most famous for his Emblemata, or emblem books.

Pietro Aquila, Italy, (1650–1692) – Circe and Ulysses, from the series Galeriae Farnesianae Icones (ca. 1680). Aquila was an engraver, etcher, painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Aquila.

Francesco Xanto Avelli, Italy, (b. ca. 1486-7; d. ca.1542) – Circe, Ulysses and his companions, earthenware low plate with maiolica tin-glazed (1533).

Christina Balit, England (b. 1961), works include: Circe. Balit is an Illustrator of children’s books, author and playwright. Her trademark style and interpretation is based on traditional mythology, fairy tales and Biblical stories.

Wright Barker, British, (1864-1941) – Circe (1904-1912), oil on canvas. Barker was a member of the Royal British Academy (R.B.A. )and was a painter of genre, rural and sporting scenes.

Alice Pike Barney, United States, (1857-1931) – Circe, (ndg.), pastel on canvas. Barney was an artist, writer, playwright, theater director, philanthropist, civic leader, and patron of the arts.

Frank Beard, United States (1842-1905), works include: The Modern Circe. Beard was an illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist. He was the principal illustrator for The Ram’s Horn, an interdenominational social gospel magazine.

Romare Bearden, United States, (1911-1988) – Circe Turns a Companion of Odysseus into a Swine, (1977), mixed media collage of various papers with paint and graphite on fiberboard.

Jacques Belli, France, (1609-1674) – Odysseus leaves Circe, (17th cent.), sanguine (red iron-oxide) crayon on paper. Belli, also known as Jacques Belly, and Iacomo Belli, was an etcher and painter.

Jacques Blanchard, France, (1600-1638) – Odysseus forcing Circe to return his companions to their human forms, (17th cent.), sanguine (red iron-oxide) crayon on paper. Blanchard or Blanchart, was a French baroque painter best known for his small religious and mythological paintings.