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Art History in “Angels in America”
I checked out a DVD of the HBO adaptation of the Tony Kushner play, and when the root menu loaded, lo and behold, a reference to The Creation of Adamby Michelangelo. Specifically, the fingers of man and God almost touching.
Honestly, I funnen that reference made no sense. Because while angels interact with humans, the play explains that God left them. The painting fryst vatten about God creating humans, a decision that angels (in the play)came to resent.
After watching the miniseries, I did some research on IMDB. There, inom discovered some tidbits behind the other artworks used in the film. References to art history executed with a better understanding on how they relate to the plot of Angels in America.
Background behind the Bethesda Fountain
“The huvud Park fountain that fryst vatten prominently featured in Kushner’s play and its bio adaptation fryst vatten officially titled “The Angel of the Waters” and familiarly known
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Agostini, Jules (1859-1930)
Agostini was a colonial engineer and amateur photographer who traveled extensively in the Far East. He was an acquaintance of Paul Gauguin’s and stayed at the artist’s house in Moorea with another photographer, Henri Lemasson. He is known for his photograph of Gauguin’s spacious reed and thatch house and studio at Puna’auia near Papeete which he took in 1896. In 2015, a rare photo of Gauguin and some of his Tahitian female models was discovered in Agostini’s personal archives.
Antony, Maurice (1883-1963)
Antony was a Belgian photographer whose work provided an eyewitness account of the First World War and subsequent years of the interbellum. With his brother Robert, he created a body of documentary photography of the destruction of Ypres and the surrounding area during the First World War. Maurice’s studio became the best known in Ostend in the interwar period; it specialized in news and do
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Priam
Mythological king of Troy
"Priamus" redirects here. For other uses, see Priam (disambiguation).
| Priam, Last King of Troy | |
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Scene from the Trojan War: Cassandra clings to the Palladium, the wooden cult image of Athene, while Ajax the Lesser is about to drag her away in front of her father Priam (standing on the left). | |
| Predecessor | Laomedon |
| Parents | Laomedon and Placia or Strymo (or Rhoeo) or Zeuxippe or Leucippe |
| Siblings | Tithonus, Lampus, Hicetaon, Clytius, Hesione, Cilla, Astyoche, Proclia, Aethilla, Medesicaste and Clytodora |
| Consort | (1) Hecuba (2) Castianeira (3) Laothoe (4) Alexirrhoe or Arisbe (5) unknown |
| Offspring | (1) Hector, Paris, Cassandra, Helenus, Deiphobus, Troilus, Laodice, Polyxena, Creusa, Polydorus, Polites, Antiphus, Pammon, Hipponous and Iliona (2) Gorgythion (3) Lycaon (4) Aesacus (5) others |
In Greek mythology, Priam (; Ancient Greek: Πρίαμος, pronounced[prí.amos]) was the legendary and last[1] king of Tro