“From Stone to Life” by William Calder Marshall (original) (raw)

From Stone to Life

William Calder Marshall, RA

1877

Marble

Source: the 1878 Magazine of Art

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
Tlie soul that rises with us, our life’s star.
Hath had elsewhere its setting.
And cometh from afar.”

Other Versions of Pygmalion

• The Story of Pygmalion from Ovid's Metamorphoses
• “Pygmalion and the Image” by William Morris
• The Godhead Fires by Edward Burne-Jones
• Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean Léon Gérôme
• Pygmalion and Galatea by Giulio Bargellini
• Gérome’s sculptural version