Pausanias and the Mythological Painting of Fernanda Facciolli

Abstract

This paper studies an exhibition of mythological paintings held in 2017 at the Old Fortress on the island of Corfu. The artists are Fernanda Facciolli (Venice 1950), mainly, and her husband Emmet, who, driven by their passion for archaeology and for Pausanias, have travelled a large part of Greek geography (especially Boeotia and Corfu for the occasion) trying to demonstrate that mythological characters are, in fact, elements of nature and that the dominant religion in the Bronze Age was matriarchal.