Series[UMA-SRE-20140045] MAJOR WORKSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004500395Scope and ContentImages of paintings and sculptures by various artists of Adonis and Venus and Adonis. Depictions are from classical art and by later artists including Tintoretto, Lemoyne, Rubens, Carracci, Prud'hon, Turchi, Poussin, Rosselli. Images are in formats including black and white and colour photocopies, colour plates (cut from catalogues), print outs of web pages; many sheets have annotations by GG. Includes web pages and photocopies of information on Adonis and Venus, and the artists and paintings, including photocopied chapter by William R Reilly, 'Two Allegories of the Seasons by Simon Vouet and Their Iconography' (unsourced). The folder also contains laser print typescript of drafts of synopsis begins: "THE BOY is a book of delights...", chapter summaries and sections (most pages unnumbered): Chapter X Adonis (2 pages, numbered 17-18); Introduction: 'The boy, yes, the boy is beautiful." (1 page); Chapter 1: Boys the world over (1 page); Chapter IV More Mythic Boys; (2 pages); Chapter IV Mythic Boys: Endymion (1 page); Chapter III Divine Boys: Ganymede (1 page); Chapter III Divine Boys: Dionysos (1 page); Chapter III Divine Boys: Apollo (3 pages); Chapter V Jewish Boys: David (3 pages); Chapter VII Abused Boys: Sebastian (1 page); Chapter VIII Flying Boys (1 page); Chapter IX Page boys (3 pages); Chapter X The teenage heart-throb (1 page); Chapter XII Old Lady Business (1 page); one page handwritten notes on Adonis on A4 square lined paper sheet; handwritten transcription of poem in Italian, L'Adone by Giovan Battista Marino. Subjects: The Boy; The Beautiful Boy; Young men in art; Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Mythology in art; Book proposalsAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0045 Unit 0037
Greer, Germaine, The Boy - Adonis (c.2001-2002), [UMA-ITE-2014004500395]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 19/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/344365
