NYX
Nyx (Νύξ) · Roman Nox
Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Nyx.
La Nuit (Night)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1883
An oil painting by the French academic master William-Adolphe Bouguereau personifying Night as a graceful female figure gliding through the darkened sky, her dark veil billowing about her. It belongs to a group of allegorical canvases Bouguereau devoted to the times of day, rendering the ancient goddess of night in the polished idiom of nineteenth-century academic painting.
Night and Sleep
Evelyn De Morgan, 1878
An oil painting by the English artist Evelyn De Morgan, now in the De Morgan Foundation collection. Nyx, the goddess of night, drifts across the sky drawing her mantle of darkness over the world, while her son Hypnos floats at her side scattering the poppies of sleep. The intertwined pair show De Morgan's debt to Botticelli and the Pre-Raphaelites.