Artwork Title: Circe Invidiosa

Circe Invidiosa, 1892

John William Waterhouse

Artwork Title: Circe InvidiosaArtwork Title: Circe Invidiosa
Circe Invidiosa is a painting by John William Waterhouse completed in 1892. It is his second depiction, after Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, of the Greek mythological character, Circe, this time while she is poisoning the water to turn Scylla, Circe's rival for Glaucus, "into a hideous monster". Anthony Hobson describes the painting as being "invested with an aura of menace, which has much to do with the powerful color scheme of deep greens and blues [Waterhouse] employed so well". Those colous are "near stained glass or jewels", according to Gleeson White. Judith Yarnall also echoes the sentiment about the colors, and mentions an "integrity of line" in the painting. She says that taken as a pair, Waterhouse's Circes prompt the question: "is she goddess or woman?" Waterhouse later returned to the subject of Circe a third time with The Sorceress (c. 1911). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe_Invidiosa)
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