La Laguna Estigia
(Redirected from The River Styx (painting))
| La Laguna Estigia | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Artist | Félix Resurrección Hidalgo |
| Year | 1887 |
La Laguna Estigia (The River Styx or The Styx), also known simply as Laguna Estigia,[1] is an 1887 Greco-Roman painting by Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo. It is a companion-piece for Hidalgo's other painting entitled La barca de Aqueronte. Like the La barca de Aqueronte, the La Laguna Estigia on Dante's Inferno, the painter pursuing the theme leading towards a “darker” and “more somber interpretation” of it.[2]
The painting was a silver medalist during the 1887 Exposicion General de las Islas Filipinas in Madrid, Spain.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art (2009). "Felix Ressurreccion Hidalgo". Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
- ^ "La Laguna Estigia (The River Styx) from La Barca de Aqueronte". Lopez Memorial Museum. 2003. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
- ^ "La Laguna Estigia (The River Styx) from Module Three - El Asesinato Del Governador Bustamante Y Su Hijo: Powerand Conflict" (PDF). Lopez Memorial Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
 | This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |