Bartolomeo Pinelli’s piece tilted Telemachus Battles The Lion (from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2, 1808.) The piece is Pen and black ink with brush and gray and brown wash, with traces of black on paper. Telemachus was in Egypt, and for him to ensure his safety and freedom, he wrestled and killed a lion that attacked him and his fellow shepards’ flocks.
The artist made the focal point of the painting to Telemachus wrestling the lion, because it symbolizes the freedom of Telemachus and the shepards’. In the front of the painting we have one man wrestling the lion, two men looking worried and terrific in the eyes, and one man who is climbing over a rock to escape what is happening. The two men who are looking worried, seem like Telemachus might now be able to kill the lion by himself.
Pinelli’s uses lines to direct the viewers eyes around the artwork. The lines at the bottom left corner of the painting are making there way up to the shepards and the lion. The line is wrapping around the lion’s tail making a swirl to make the tail darker. The line outlines the rocks on the side of the painting. Every line in the painting goes in different direction to make a new object in the artwork and draws the viewers attention to the piece.
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I believe that this artworks content is a man wrestling a big lion to ensure that the lion will not hurt him or his fellow friends. Telemachus must kill the lion to protect the people he loves, but also, he is proving to himself that he can do something like this. In my eyes the lion was the threat and that threat needed to be terminated. The artist Bartolomeo Pinelli decided to depict the work of art in the way he did was to tell a story through a single artwork. The artist made the lion the focus of the artwork, because it is a symbol of how Telemachus fought for his and his fellow shepards’