Pygmalion and Galatea (French: Pygmalion et Galatée) is an 1890 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. The motif is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses...

In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar...

and mythology since the writings of the ancient Greeks (see the myth of Pygmalion). In science fiction, female-appearance robots are often produced for...

In the Salon of 1812 he exhibited only a Tête de Vierge; in 1819 Pygmalion et Galatée showed a further decline of strength. In 1824, the year in which...

possession. Other literary influences that appear in Frankenstein are Pygmalion et Galatée by Mme de Genlis, and Ovid, with the use of individuals identifying...

Adam (1762) Vertumnus and Pomone by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1760) Pygmalion et Galatee by Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1763) The intoxication of wine by Claude...

Renaud et Armide (Milan 1775 – London 1782) Apelle et Campaspe (Paris 1776 – Lyon 1787) Les Caprices de Galatée (Paris 1776 – London 1789) Annette et Lubin...

eponymous characters out of the Metamorphoses, as is Lully's 1686 opera Acis et Galatée. In 1743, Handel composed Semele. Based on a pre-existent libretto by...

secured his admission to the membership of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1754. He came to prominent public attention in the Salons...

de Literes (1708). In France, Jean-Baptiste Lully wrote the opera Acis et Galatée (1686) which was about the Greek myth. Described by him as a pastoral-heroic...