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The Minotaur, oil on canvas, 188.1 cm × 94.5 cm (74.1 in × 37.2 in), Tate Britain. 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.
The Minotaur by George Frederic Watts, 1885. In the epilogue to his 1949 short-story collection The Aleph, Borges wrote that the inspiration for "The House of Asterion" and the "character of its sad protagonist" was The Minotaur, a painting completed in 1885 by English artist George Frederic Watts. [3]
The short story The House of Asterion by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges gives the Minotaur's story from the monster's perspective. [ 44 ] Asterion is the chief antagonist of The King Must Die , Mary Renault 's 1958 reinterpretation of the Theseus myth in the light of the excavation of Knossos.
This is a list of artists who were born in the Vietnam or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.. Artists are listed by field of study and then by family name in alphabetical order (review Vietnamese naming customs as the family name will display in the first name field, with exceptions including people of the diaspora), and they may be listed more than once on the list if ...
José Francisco Borges (4 August 1935 – 26 July 2024), best known as J. Borges, [1] was a Brazilian folk poet and woodcut artist. He was considered the greatest woodcut artist in northeastern Brazil , and "the most celebrated master of the art."
Minotaur at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Ayrton was born Michael Ayrton Gould, [1] son of the writer Gerald Gould and the Labour politician Barbara Ayrton, and took his mother's maiden name professionally. His maternal grandmother was the electrical engineer and inventor, Hertha Marks Ayrton.
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The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.