ELYSIAN FIELDS Pastel By Dana Zivanovits

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Medium:

Pastel

Size - (USA):

11 W x 8 H x 1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

27.9 W x 20.3 H x 2.5 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Mythology

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

256932

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Artwork Description:

Watercolor and conte chalk on all rag arches paper- a signed and dated Zivanovits original. The Elysian Fields lay on the western margin of the earth, by the encircling stream of Oceanus, and there the mortal relatives of the king of the gods were transported, without tasting death, to enjoy an immortality of bliss (Odyssey 4.563). Lesser spirits were less fortunate: an eerie passage describes the twittering bat-like ghosts of Penelope's slain suitors, led by Hermes: "down the dank moldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their

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