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Landscape with Philemon and Baucis
Landscape with Philemon and Baucis is a 1620 painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. The painting is now located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is centred on the myth of Baucis and Philemon.
Bibliography.
- Hermann Bauer: "El Barroco en los Países Bajos, en Los maestros de la pintura occidental", Taschen, 2005, p. 290,
"Philemon and Baucis" in The Man with Night Sweats.
- Barbey D'Aurevilly describes a couple as Philemon and Baucis in his short story "Happiness in Crime" from the collection Les Diaboliques.
- The narrator in Max Frisch's 1964 novel Gantenbein refers to the main characters as Baucis and Philemon for a whole chapter.
- Philemon (and occasionally Baucis) is a central protagonist in Carl Jung's revelatory text, the Red Book.
- Referenced by Ezra Pound in the poem "The Tree."