Alexander the Great Cutting the Gordian Knot
Alexander the Great Cutting the Gordian Knot c1718-19 by Italian Artist Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691–1765); ar a dtugtar ailtire agus péintéir a chuid radharcanna na Róimhe, ag tabhairt mionsonraí faoi sheaniarsmaí na cathrach móra sin.
This piece follows the legend of the Phrygians an an ancient Indo-European speaking people, who inhabited central-western Anatolia in antiquity; and were related to the Greeks.
The Phrygians were without a king; but an oracle at Telmissus, the ancient capital of Lycia decreed that the next man to enter the city that was driving an ox-cart should become their king.
Then a peasant farmer named Gordias came into the city on an ox-cart and was promptly declared king; and out of gratitude, his son Midas dedicated the ox-cart his father was driving to the Phrygian god Sabazios; whom the Greeks identified with Zeus and tied it to a post with an intricate knot of cornel bark.
The ox-cart still stood in the palace of the former kings of Phrygia at Gordium in the fourth century BC when Alexander the Great arrived there; by which time the kingdom of Phrygia had been reduced to a satrapy, or province, of the Persian Empire.
Then another oracle declared that the man capable of unraveling the elaborate knot was destined to become the ruler of Asia; and so Alexander gave his hand at unraveling the knot with little success; but he reasoned that it mad no difference how the knot was unraveled, so he drew his sword and sliced it mid way with a single stroke.
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Péintéir agus ailtire ab ea Giovanni Paolo Panini nó Giovanni Paolo Pannini a d’oibrigh sa Róimh agus ar a dtugtar go príomha ceann de na vedutisti (“amharc ar phéintéirí”).
Mar phéintéir, Is fearr aithne ar Pannini mar gheall ar a chuid radharcanna ar an Róimh, inar ghlac sé spéis faoi leith i seandachtaí na cathrach.
I measc na saothar is cáiliúla atá aige tá a dhearcadh ar an taobh istigh den Phanton (thar ceann Francesco Algarotti 1712 – 1764 – Polymath Veinéiseach), agus a phictiúir vedute de ghailearaithe pictiúr ina bhfuil radhairc den Róimh.
An chuid is mó dá shaothair, go háirithe fothracha, tá tréith mhaisiúil neamhréadúil acu arb iad is sainairíonna téamaí capriccio. Sa mhéid seo tá siad cosúil le capricci Péintéir agus Déantóir Priontaí na hIodáile Marco Ricci (1676 – 1730).
Phéinteáil Panini portráidí freisin, lena n-áirítear ceann de Phápa Benedict XIV (rugadh Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini 1675 – 1758 – Ceann na hEaglaise Caitlicí ó 1740 – 1758).
Sa Róimh, Thuill Panini ainm dó féin mar mhaisitheoir palaces. I measc cuid dá shaothar bhí an Villa Patrizi c1719 / 25, an Palazzo de Carolis c1720, agus an Seminario Romano c1721 / 22).
I 1719, Glacadh Panini chuig Comhdháil an Virtuosi al Pantheon. Mhúin sé sa Róimh ag an Accademia di San Luca agus san Académie de France, áit a ndeirtear go raibh tionchar aige ar Jean-Honoré Fragonard. I 1754, d’fhóin sé mar phrionsa (stiúrthóir) den Accademia di San Luca.