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Jupiter et Sémélé (1894–95; English, Jupiter and Semele) is a painting by the French Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau (1826–1898). It depicts a moment from the classical myth of the mortal woman Semele, mother of the god Dionysus, and her lover, Jupiter, the king of the gods. She was treacherously advised by the goddess Juno, Jupiter's wife, to ask him to appear to her in all his divine splendor. He obliged, but, in so doing, brought about her violent death by his divine thunder and lightning. The painting is a representation of "divinized physical love" and the overpowering experience that consumes Semele as the god appears in his supreme beauty which has been called "quite simply the most sumptuous expression imaginable of an orgasm".

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  • Jupiter et Sémélé (1894–95; English, Jupiter and Semele) is a painting by the French Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau (1826–1898). It depicts a moment from the classical myth of the mortal woman Semele, mother of the god Dionysus, and her lover, Jupiter, the king of the gods. She was treacherously advised by the goddess Juno, Jupiter's wife, to ask him to appear to her in all his divine splendor. He obliged, but, in so doing, brought about her violent death by his divine thunder and lightning. The painting is a representation of "divinized physical love" and the overpowering experience that consumes Semele as the god appears in his supreme beauty which has been called "quite simply the most sumptuous expression imaginable of an orgasm". Of this work, Moreau himself wrote, "Semele, penetrated by the divine effluence, regenerated and purified by this consecration, dies struck by lightning and with her dies the genius of terrestrial love, the genius with the goat hooves". (en)
  • Jupiter et Sémélé (1894-95) est un tableau réalisé par le peintre symboliste Gustave Moreau (1826-1898). Il illustre l'épisode de la mythologie de la mortelle Sémélé, mère du dieu Bacchus, et de son amant, Jupiter, le roi des dieux. Sémélé a été traîtreusement conseillée par la déesse Junon, l'épouse de Jupiter, de demander à ce dernier d'apparaître dans toute sa splendeur divine. Mais en réalisant son souhait il provoqua sa mort violente causée par le tonnerre et la foudre. Ce tableau est une représentation « divinisée de l'amour physique » et l'insoutenable épreuve qui consume Sémélé alors que le dieu apparaît dans sa beauté suprême a été comparée à « l'expression la plus somptueusement imaginable d'un orgasme ». A propos de cette œuvre, Gustave Moreau écrit lui-même : « Le dieu, tant de fois évoqué, se manifeste dans sa splendeur encore voilée : Sémélé pénétrée des effluves divines, régénérée, purifiée par le sacre, meurt foudroyée et avec elle le génie de l'amour terrestre, le génie au pied de bouc ». (fr)
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  • Jupiter et Sémélé (1894–95; English, Jupiter and Semele) is a painting by the French Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau (1826–1898). It depicts a moment from the classical myth of the mortal woman Semele, mother of the god Dionysus, and her lover, Jupiter, the king of the gods. She was treacherously advised by the goddess Juno, Jupiter's wife, to ask him to appear to her in all his divine splendor. He obliged, but, in so doing, brought about her violent death by his divine thunder and lightning. The painting is a representation of "divinized physical love" and the overpowering experience that consumes Semele as the god appears in his supreme beauty which has been called "quite simply the most sumptuous expression imaginable of an orgasm". (en)
  • Jupiter et Sémélé (1894-95) est un tableau réalisé par le peintre symboliste Gustave Moreau (1826-1898). Il illustre l'épisode de la mythologie de la mortelle Sémélé, mère du dieu Bacchus, et de son amant, Jupiter, le roi des dieux. Sémélé a été traîtreusement conseillée par la déesse Junon, l'épouse de Jupiter, de demander à ce dernier d'apparaître dans toute sa splendeur divine. Mais en réalisant son souhait il provoqua sa mort violente causée par le tonnerre et la foudre. Ce tableau est une représentation « divinisée de l'amour physique » et l'insoutenable épreuve qui consume Sémélé alors que le dieu apparaît dans sa beauté suprême a été comparée à « l'expression la plus somptueusement imaginable d'un orgasme ». (fr)
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