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Officially graduated as Arthistorian
Yesterday November 4th I officially graduated as Arthistorian with my thesis:
De coming out of Achilles between the daughters of Lycomedes
A queerreading from Peter Paul Rubens’ modello The discovery of Achilles between the Daughters of Lycomedes (Museo del Prado)
Do you want to know more, here you can read my thesis :)
To keep Achilles from dying in the Trojan War, Thetis hides him disguised as a girl at Lycomedes' court on Skyros, where he grows up as one of his daughters. As the Greeks could not defeat Troy without Achilles, Diomedes and Ulysses were sent to Skyros. To identify Achilles, they tricked him by placing weapons among various jewels in the giftbasket for the daughters. By choosing the sword and helmet he uncovered his identity. This gender-ambiguous phase in the life of Achilles is represented and interpreted in different ways throughout history. In her essay "Trans Achilles Among the Maenads: Queer Movement on Skyros", classicist Katherine O’Neal argues for a reading in which Achilles comes out as a transman in this scene. Assuming that art also derives meaning from the viewer and that interpretation is influenced by the spirit of times, I investigate whether Rubens' seventeenth-century representation of this scene can be interpreted in accordance with this contemporary narrative.
My first bronze : Freedom of Being
There are many men and women, who have queerness in them, sometime there will be a history of all kinds of them.
Gertrude Stein, The making of Americans, 1925
First impression of my artwork
