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Tiepolo's The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia

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The story of the Iliad is known very well and defind the moments of Greek culture. The story of the Iliad and Iphigenia have taught lessons for different purposes. For example, the story of Iphigenia was tradegy for the Greek. A greek leader was told to sacrifice his daughter as a punishment in which he did. The leader had to sacrifice her and as he did, he then later on went to Troy for war. The only way his men could go to war was if he sacrificed his daughter. Iphigenia was sacrificed in Aulis. In some stories she is sacrificed, but in other stories she is not. In the painting The Sacrifice of Iphigenia by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo uses the sacrifice of Iphigenia to show that some evil things appear to be something else than what people …show more content…

The people were dressed in formal clothing. In that scene is when Iphigenia had a knife to her throat which looks like many people weren’t really shocked about it by the looks of their faces. It looks like no one took or even tried to take action for Iphigenia as she was going through this tough moment. As I said before, the scenery was very formal , but yet evil. Iphigenia’s father sacrificed her for something that was better for him, but not for everyone. Iphigenia’s father was very selfish for that. The artist of the painting was Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. “Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was arguably the greatest painter of the eighteenth-century”. (Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni). “His art celebrates his and everyone’s imagination by transporting the world of ancient history”. (Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni). Tiepolo influenced many people around the world with his magnificent art and creativity”. (Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni). Tiepolo also worked with exotic costumes and sculptures in which he loved to do. (Battista Tiepolo, …show more content…

Iphigenia’s father sacrificed her for selfish reasons. He was thinking about what was best for him instead of what was best for others and him. Iphigenia’s father had a knife towards her neck as she had it exposed because he was going to kill her for selfish reasons. Iphigenia had her neck exposed because she was about to die due to her having a knife to her neck. Her father had to sacrifice something he loved in order to go to war so he gave up his daughter. Her father was doing what is best for him by being selfish. He sacrificed his daughter because he was being arrogant. Her father wanted to go to war, but they gave hime a message to do something in order to do that. He had to give up something he loved. Picking his daughter and giving her up was really selfish. By doing what was best for him it hurt not only his daughter, but people besides her. The fact that he gave up his daughter probably hurt Iphigenia so much especially because it’s his daughter. Iphigenia’s father looked like he was in a

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