Hector’s Family by Andy Lee

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Title:	Hector’s Family by Andy Lee
Artist:	Andy Lee (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	265
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	9/23/2019
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Commissioned in 2019.

Andy is a great artist and a dear friend.

Hector is a personal hero of mine. He loved his wife and son above all else.

This painting (and the reference we used) were inspired by this passage from the Iliad:

“So saying, glorious Hector stretched out his arms to his boy, but back into the bosom of his fair-girdled nurse shrank the child crying, affrighted at the aspect of his dear father, and seized with dread of the bronze and the crest of horse-hair, [470] as he marked it waving dreadfully from the topmost helm. Aloud then laughed his dear father and queenly mother; and forthwith glorious Hector took the helm from his head and laid it all-gleaming upon the ground. But he kissed his dear son, and fondled him in his arms, [475] and spoke in prayer to Zeus and the other gods: “Zeus and ye other gods, grant that this my child may likewise prove, even as I, pre-eminent amid the Trojans, and as valiant in might, and that he rule mightily over Ilios. And some day may some man say of him as he cometh back from war, ‘He is better far than his father’; [480] and may he bear the blood-stained spoils of the foeman he hath slain, and may his mother's heart wax glad.”

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