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The Minotaur is an 1885 painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts. It depicts the Minotaur from Greek mythology as he waits for his young sacrificial victims to arrive by ship. It is an allegorical comment to child prostitution , an issue brought to attention by W. T. Stead in 1885.
The 2009 painting Asterión, by Cuban-American artist Paul Sierra, depicts the dead Asterion beneath a starry night, a reference to Asterion's suggestion that he is the creator of the stars. [54] The 2020 novel Piranesi by Susanna Clarke describes a labyrinth, "the House", in a similar manner to The House of Asterion. Clarke has said that ...
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur [b] (Ancient Greek: Μινώταυρος, Mīnṓtauros), also known as Asterion, is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man [4] (p 34) or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".
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He married Europa and became the stepfather of her sons by Zeus, [1] who assumed the form of a bull (not to be confused with the Cretan Bull that was sire to the minotaur) to accomplish his role. Asterion brought up his stepsons: Minos , the just king in Crete who judged the Underworld ; Rhadamanthus , presiding over the Blessed Island or in ...
After high school, Hollywood briefly studied sculpting at the Wallasey School of Art but left before graduating to work in his father's bakery, which was called Bread Winner (gotta love a food pun ...
De Longpré arrived in Los Angeles, Southern California with his family in 1899. Daeida Wilcox, with husband H. H. Wilcox the founders of Hollywood, was so eager to attract culture to the town that she gave him her homesite for his estate, three lots on Cahuenga on the north of Prospect (later Hollywood Boulevard), [2] in exchange for three of his paintings.
Minotaure was a Surrealist-oriented magazine founded by Albert Skira and E. Tériade in Paris and published in French between 1933 and 1939. Minotaure published on the plastic arts, poetry, and literature, avant garde, as well as articles on esoteric and unusual aspects of literary and art history.