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Poussin's Women : Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works
Killers, Transgressors
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August 11 2020
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Abstract
The explosive aggressiveness or peevishness of women and goddesses in several works by Poussin result in tragic deaths. Works depicting killers in this chapter include Medea Killing her Children, Diana Killing Acteon, Landscape with Diana and Orion, and Diana Slaying Chione. Transgressors who suffer transformation or death include Myrrha in the Birth of Adonis; Aglauros in Mercury, Herse, & Aglauros, and Sapphira in the Death of Sapphira.