Automedon and the Horses of Achilles
Posted on Wednesday, September 24th, 2003 at 8:00.
The Emerson College love spreads thick over Boston. Emerson students have free admission to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Other students are charged $13.
This finding comes as my second assignment in Honors Seminar 1 involved choosing a painting at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, criticising a criticism of the painting in regard to essays read in class, and presenting my findings. I chose Henri Regnault’s Automedon with the Horses of Achilles. The artist was unfamiliar to me and the painting’s sheer size (over 100 square feet) enamored me. While the painting was actually done as an educational piece and was based upon Homer’s Iliad, I could not help but think of how often I have felt stripped of almost everything by storms of life while struggling with two competing issues that pull me in opposite directions.
