Images of Persephone

Persephone

Persephone is the Queen of the Underworld and the daughter of Demeter. She is also known as Proserpine (Roman), and Kore, which is also transliterated as Core or Cora and translated as the Maid or the Maiden. Her attributes in iconography can include a torch, a crown, a sceptre, and stalks of grain.

Images 1. Demeter and Kore: Large image, Archaic.
2. Athena, Herakles, Cerberus, Hades, Persephone in Underworld: Image, Leagros Group, 520 BC. 3. Departure of Triptolemos: Image , Makron Painter, ca 490-480 BC.
4. Hades and Persephone: Large image, Locri, votive relief, ca 480 BC.
5. Persephone as Queen of the Underworld: Large image, Cult Image - Magna Graecia (Taranto) - ca 460 BC.
6. Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos: Image: Relief from Eleusis, ca 440-430 BC.
7. Persephone (Kore) as Hydranos: Large image, Purifying a youthful initiate Classical fragment from a marble stele - 1st quarter of the 4th century BC.
8. Persephone and Hades: Large image, mid 4th century BC.
9. Hades and Persephone: Image, Lycurgus painter, the Underworld, ca 350 BC.
10. The Rape of Persephone: Large image , Vergina, tomb, ca 350 BC.
11. Persephone, Triptolemus, and Demeter: Large image, Eleusis, votive relief, 2nd half 4th ca BC.
12. Persephone and the pomegranate: Large image, Tanagra statuette, 3rd century BC.

Later Representations in Art

1. Pluto and Proserpina: Image, French manuscript, 15th century.
2. The Rape of Proserpine: Large image, Rubens, Peter Paul, 1619-1620.
3. Pluto and Proserpine: Large image, Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1621-1622.
4. Pluto abducting Proserpine: Large image, Girardon, Francois, ca 1693-1710.
5. The Abduction of Perserpine: Image, Boucher, Francois, 1769.
6. Proserpine: Large image, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1874.
7. Persephone, Image, Thomas Hart Benton, 1938.
8. Pluto and Proserpina, Bernini, Gianlorenzo, 1621-22. Image 1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 6. (intranet)