The black virgin (Persephone) by Vincenzo Cohen

Paintings by Vincenzo Cohen For Sale

  • Title: The black virgin (Persephone)

  • Artist: Vincenzo Cohen

  • Category: Paintings

  • Medium: oil on canvas

  • Size (inches): 19.68x27.55

  • Year: 1997

  • Framed?: Unframed

  • Shipping from: Italy

Reduced Price: $950 USD    $850 USD

Artwork description

The artwork represents Persephone (gr. Περσεϕόνη) chthonic deity and queen of Hades, known in Roman mythology as “Proserpin”e and “Kore” in the bucolic world, where the goddess presides over crops. Dante locates her in the sixth circle of Hell (“the queen of the eternal weeping” IX, 44), where heretics are placed. The subject draws inspiration from the late nineteenth-century gothic imagery adapted according to the style of the comics noir 70’s. The goddess is in fact represented in a modern way, in her deadly carnality with a sensual combination of eros and thanatos.

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