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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.
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".
An image of the Minotaur or an allusion to the legend of the Minotaur appears at the center of many of these mosaic labyrinths. The four-axis pattern as executed in Chartres Cathedral (early 1200s) The four-axis medieval patterns may have developed from the Roman model, but are more varied in how the four quadrants of the design are traced out.
Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis de Paul, and Saint Peter penitent; Saint Paul (Masaccio) Saint Paul (Velázquez) Saint Paul Enthroned; Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Crivelli) Saint Roderick (Murillo) San Domenico di Pesaro Altarpiece; San Zeno Altarpiece (Mantegna) São Paulo (Nuno Gonçalves) Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul; Suardi Chapel
Theseus Killing the Minotaur is an oil-on-panel painting by Cima da Conegliano, created c. 1505, now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. It depicts a scene of Greek mythology, when Theseus killed the Minotaur in Crete's labyrinth. [1] [2] [3] It measures 38.2 centimetres (15.0 in) by 30.8 centimetres (12.1 in).
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 myth of the Minotaur tells that Theseus, a prince from Athens, whose father was an ancient Greek king named Aegeus, the basis for the name of the Greek sea (the Aegean Sea), sailed to Crete, where he was forced to fight a terrible creature called the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a half man, half bull, and was kept in the Labyrinth – a ...
Theseus and the Minotaur is a 1781-1782 white marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which bought it in 1962. [ 1 ] The sculpture in Room 22 of the V&A