Aesculapius
About this painting
- Year
- 2014
- Dimensions
- 90×70 cm
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Cycle
- Outside any cycle
Description
The myth of medicine and its price, the contrast of blue skin and red drapery, the serpent as the healer's signature. A reclining, slate-blue nude woman with a long smooth body is wrapped in red drapery; a red-and-yellow serpent coils around her right ankle as signature; the background splits into a navy pixel checker and a band of gold leaf.