Editing Delphi (section)

==Delphi in later art==
[[File:Delphi - Gerbelius Nicolas - 1545.jpg|thumb|250px|Nocolas' Gerbel' fanciful Delphic castle]]
[[File:Claude Lorrain 027.jpg|thumb|''View of Delphi with Sacrificial Procession'' by [[Claude Lorrain]]]]
[[File:'Delphi' by Edward Lear, watercolor, 12 by 19 cm..jpg|thumb|''Delphi'' by [[Edward Lear]] features the [[Phaedriades]]]]
[[File:Itea from Delphi - Willoughby Vera - 1925.jpg|thumb|''Itea from Delphi'' (1925) by [[Vera Willoughby]] – Itea is a town located in Greece]]

From the sixteenth century onward, woodcuts of Delphi began to appear in printed maps and books. The earliest depictions of Delphi were totally imaginary; for example, those created by [[Nikolaus Gerbel]], who published in 1545 a text based on the map of Greece by N. Sofianos. The ancient sanctuary was depicted as a fortified city.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Tolias | first=George | title=Nikolaos Sophianos's Totius Graeciae Descriptio: The Resources, Diffusion and Function of a Sixteenth-Century Antiquarian Map of Greece | journal=Imago Mundi | volume=58 | year=2006 | issue=2 | pages=150–182 | doi=10.1080/03085690600687214 | hdl=10442/13763 | s2cid=54885024 | quote=The views are imaginary, and some are reproductions or variants of older woodcuts of German towns here used for Greek towns. | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085690600687214| hdl-access=free }}</ref>

The first travelers with archaeological interests, apart from the precursor Cyriacus of Ancona, were the British [[George Wheler (clergyman and scholar)|George Wheler]] and the French [[Jacob Spon]], who visited Greece in a joint expedition in 1675–1676. They published their impressions separately. In Wheler's "Journey into Greece", published in 1682, a sketch of the region of Delphi appeared, where the settlement of Kastri and some ruins were depicted. The illustrations in Spon's publication "Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce et du Levant, 1678" are considered original and groundbreaking.

Travelers continued to visit Delphi throughout the nineteenth century and published their books which contained diaries, sketches, and views of the site, as well as pictures of coins. The illustrations often reflected the spirit of romanticism, as evident by the works of Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, where, apart from the landscapes (''La Grèce. Vues pittoresques et topographiques'', Paris 1834) are depicted also human types (''Costumes et usages des peuples de la Grèce moderne dessinés sur les lieux'', Paris 1828). The philhellene painter W. Williams has comprised the landscape of Delphi in his themes (1829). Influential personalities such as F.Ch.-H.-L. Pouqueville, W.M. Leake, Chr. Wordsworth and Lord Byron are amongst the most important visitors of Delphi.

After the foundation of the modern Greek state, the press became also interested in these travelers. Thus "Ephemeris" writes (17 March 1889):
In the ''Revues des Deux Mondes'' [[Paul Lefaivre]] published his memoirs from an excursion to Delphi. The French author relates in a charming style his adventures on the road, praising particularly the ability of an old woman to put back in place the dislocated arm of one of his foreign traveling companions, who had fallen off the horse. "In [[Arachova]] the Greek type is preserved intact. The men are rather athletes than farmers, built for running and wrestling, particularly elegant and slender under their mountain gear." Only briefly does he refer to the antiquities of Delphi, but he refers to a pelasgian wall 80&nbsp;meters long, "on which innumerable inscriptions are carved, decrees, conventions, manumissions".{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

Gradually the first travelling guides appeared. The revolutionary "pocket" books invented by [[Karl Baedeker]], accompanied by maps useful for visiting archaeological sites such as Delphi (1894) and the informed plans, the guides became practical and popular. The photographic lens revolutionized the way of depicting the landscape and the antiquities, particularly from 1893 onward, when the systematic excavations of the French Archaeological School started. However, artists such as Vera Willoughby, continued to be inspired by the landscape.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

Delphic themes inspired several graphic artists. Besides the landscape, [[Pythia]] and Sibylla become illustration subjects even on Tarot cards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/tarot-of-delphi/ |title=Tarot of Delphi |website=Aeclectic.net |access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref> A famous example constitutes Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl (1509),<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo_-_Delphic_Sibyl.jpg |title=Delphic Sibyl |author=Michelangelo |year=1509 |medium=painting |website=Wikimedia Commons}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |title=The Priestess of Delphi |author=John Collier |year=1891 |medium=painting}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |title=Consulting the Oracle |author=John William Waterhouse |year=1882 |medium=painting |url=http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=75 |website=JWWaterhouse.com}}</ref> the nineteenth-century German engraving, Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, as well as the recent ink on paper drawing, "The Oracle of Delphi" (2013) by M. Lind.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=The Oracle of Delphi |author=Malin Lind |date=January 22, 2013 |df=dmy-all |medium=ink on paper |url=https://theshapeshifter.wordpress.com/tag/delphi/ |series=Delphi – Art, creation of life |website=theshapeshifter.wordpress.com |access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref>
Modern artists are inspired also by the Delphic Maxims. Examples of such works are displayed in the "Sculpture park of the European Cultural Center of Delphi" and in exhibitions taking place at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-13 |title=Delphic Spirit by Aristides Patsoglou - theDelphiGuide.com |url=https://thedelphiguide.com/delphic-spirit-by-aristides-patsoglou/ |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=thedelphiguide.com |language=en-US}}</ref>