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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.
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
The Minotaur is commonly represented in Classical art with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull. According to Sophocles 's Trachiniai , when the river spirit Achelous seduced Deianira , one of the guises he assumed was a man with the head of a bull.
Minotauromachy (La Minotauromachie) is a 19.5 by 27.4” etching and engraving created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in Paris in 1935. [1] The etching and resulting prints, literally entitled Minotaur Battle, feature many compositional aspects and themes seen often in Picasso’s art throughout the 1930s. [2]
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Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl is a 1933 etching by Pablo Picasso.It is part of the Vollard Suite of 100 etchings (No. 93, Bloch 201, Baer 369). It is the first example among several works to be realized through the remaining part of the decade where Picasso used the theme of the legendary Minoan creature, the Minotaur.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -The remaining five members of the "Bali Nine" Australian drug ring have returned from Indonesia after diplomatic efforts between the countries this month to strike a repatriation ...