Hecuba A Graecis Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta’s painting Hecuba a Graecis, Hamlet by Shakespeare, and Ovid’s Hecuba can have many different meanings to it. Everyone has a different interpretation of the Hecuba a Graecis. Interpreting art and poems can make you see the world in a way that you have never seen before. Tearing up and breaking down what artists and writers had to say is the best way to understand. Painters express their emotion through their paintings and writers express them through their writings. If we can figure out what they were feeling the meaning for the piece will come naturally. Antonio Tempesta’s painting Hecuba a Graecis is a creation showing how “the Greeks carrying off Hecuba and bundling her into a boat to right; with battle raging in front of the walls of Troy to left and a ship behind to right.” (The British Museum). Hamlet by Shakespeare, was created to tell a story about Prince
He looks to other people for guidance, the line “That’s good; ‘Mobled queen’ is god.” (Hamlet) this line represents how he was looking for someone good and he was told who to look for. The first player had told Hamlet how to find the ‘Mobled queen’ he had to “Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames, With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head, Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd, 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced: ‘But if the gods themselves did see her then, When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport, In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, The instant burst of clamour that she made, Unless things mortal move them not at all, Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods. (Hamlet). The First player had told Hamlet where to find the ‘mobled queen’ was and who to ask she was not