Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Poets and artists who have considered pigs and the goddess Circe
Kermit Oliver, United States (b. 1943), works includes: Circe and A Swine Before a Silvered Bowl of River Pearls. Oliver is a painter known for narrative painting incorporating mystical, mythological and religious themes.
France, (1686-1755) The Palace of Circe (ca. 1732), black chalk and gray wash heightened with white on blue paper 12.4 x 20.9 in. (31.5 x 53.0 cm.) Musée du Louvre Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of drawings the artist made for a set of Beauvais tapestries with subjects from the Metamorphoses of … Read more
Roman, (43 BC-AD 17/18) Metamorphoses BOOK XIV The Enchantments of Circe Before the spacious Front, a Herd we find Of Beasts, the fiercest of the savage Kind. Our trembling Steps with Blandishments they meet, And fawn, unlike their Species, at our Feet. Within, upon a sumptuous Throne of State On golden Columns rais’d th’Enchantress … Read more
Richard Packer (aka: Lewis Packer), New Zealand, (1935-89), poetry includes: Circe boiling. Packer was a poet, playwright, journalist and advertising executive. Packer also travelled extensively and never cease to question the world and the role of man and womankind in it.
Italy, (1720-1770) Circe and Ulysses (1741), oil on canvas 42.5 x 37.6 in.(108 x 95.5 cm.) Private collection About the Artist Camillo Paderni (1720-1770) was a little-known Italian painter, sculptor and chief restorer in the court of Charles III (1716-1788). He is known to have been a student of Francesco Fernandi (1679–1740), an Italian painter … Read more
United States, (b. 1957) Circe (2000), gouache and ink on paper Preparing for the Feast (2010), gouache and ink on paper 15.5 x 21.5 in. (39.4 x 54.6 cm.) Big and Little (ndg.), gouache and ink on paper About the Artist Julie Paschkis (b. 1957) is a U.S. painter and illustrator of children’s books. She … Read more
John Payne (1842-1916), was a British poet and translator of exotic poems and tales. He is now best known for his translations of the Diwan of Hafez, Boccaccio’s Decameron, The Arabian Nights and works of Villon.
Roger Payne, British, (b.1934) is an illustrator and artist. Art works here include: Circe and Odysseus, Circe changing the sailors into pigs.
Germany, (ca. 1500-1550) Ulysses and Circe (ca. 1500-1550), pen and black ink with red, blue, gray and brown wash 3.0 x 3.8 in. (7.6 x 9.7 cm.) [sheet cut down] British Museum About the Artist Georg Pencz (c. 1500 – 1550) was a German engraver, painter and print-maker. Pencz was a student of Albrecht Dürer … Read more
France, (1590-1649) Circe returning the companions of Ulysses to human form (early 17th cent.), pen, brown ink, pencil, gray wash, black chalk in sketchbook 10.6 x 15.5 in. (39.4 x 26.9 cm.) [page] Musée du Louvre About the Artist François Perrier (1590-1650) was a French painter and etcher. He lived and worked alternately in Rome … Read more