This clay relief by Harry Bates shows Endymion conveyed in sleep to Mount Latmos. Endymion was a handsome shepherd-prince loved by the moon-goddess Selene. When Zeus offered him his choice of destinies, Endymion chose immortality and youth in eternal slumber. He was laid out in a cave on Mount Latmos in Karia (Caria) where his lunar lover would visit him each night. Harry Bates (1850 –1899) was a British sculptor. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1892 as and was an active, if intermittent, member of the Art Workers Guild. He was a central figure in the British movement known as N
This clay relief by Harry Bates shows Endymion conveyed in sleep to Mount Latmos. Endymion was a handsome shepherd-prince loved by the moon-goddess Selene. When Zeus offered him his choice of destinies, Endymion chose immortality and youth in eternal slumber. He was laid out in a cave on Mount Latmos in Karia (Caria) where his lunar lover would visit him each night. Harry Bates (1850 –1899) was a British sculptor. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1892 as and was an active, if intermittent, member of the Art Workers Guild. He was a central figure in the British movement known as New Sculpture
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