Goddess Athena and her Cockerel
Three layered hand cut out paper 220 - 270 gr., ink and threads. Τhe artwork is framed in a wooden black frame with mat and museum glass for better clarity and depth, anti-reflection and uv protection.
Dimensions (cm) Width: 28.50 X High: 36.50 X Depth: 2.00
Dimensions with frame (cm) Width: 44.50 X High: 52.00 X Depth: 3.00
"Only-begotten, noble race of Jove, blessed and fierce, who joy’st in caves to rove : O warlike Pallas, whose illustrious kind, ineffable and effable we find : Magnanimous and fam’d, the rocky height, and groves, and shady mountains thee delight : In arms rejoicing, who with Furies dire… mother of arts, impetuous ; understood, rage to the wicked, wisdom to the good : Female and male, the arts of war are thine, fanatic, much-form’d dragoness, divine : … hear me, O Goddess, when to thee I pray, with supplicating voice both night and day, and in my latest hour, give peace and health, and, ever present, be thy vot’ries aid…" (Orphic Hymn 32, To Pallas)