Artistic Representations

Artistic Representations of Baucis and Philemon

Jean Matheus, Philemon and Baucis, 1619.

Adam Elsheimer, Jupiter and Mercury in the house of Philemon and Baucis, c1608, Dresden.

Peter Paul Rubens. Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis. 1618.

Peter Paul Rubens. Stormy Landscape with Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis. 1620.

Rembrandt. Philemon and Baucis. 1658. Oil on wood. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA..

Giueseppe Santi. Jupiter and Mercury Reveal Themselves to Philemon and Baucis.1796.

David Ligare, Landscape for Baucis and Philemon. 1984.

A suggestions for how to use art in the classroom:

• Inspired by Gardner’s “Artful Thinking” research

– (1) To help teachers create rich connections between works of art and curricular topics; and (2) to help teachers use art as a force for developing students’ thinking dispositions.

• Make 3-5 stations around the room with a different work of art at each station

• Have the students go to the station and spend 10-15 minutes answering the following questions :

– What do I see?

– How do I know?

– What is the setting?

– What is different?

– What is the same?

– Give the Latin vocabulary words and label anything you can in the picture