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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 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 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.
Medea (Sandys painting) Medusa (Caravaggio) Medusa (Leonardo) Medusa (Rubens) Meleager and Atalanta (Jordaens, 1618) Meleager and Atalanta (Jordaens, 1620–1650) Metamorphosis of Narcissus; The Minotaur (painting) The Myth of Prometheus (Piero di Cosimo)
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.
Theseus (UK: / ˈ θ iː sj uː s /, US: / ˈ θ iː s i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Θησεύς [tʰɛːsěu̯s]) was a divine hero in Greek mythology, famous for slaying the Minotaur.The myths surrounding Theseus, his journeys, exploits, and friends, have provided material for storytelling throughout the ages.
With the memories of my past relationships rushing to my head, this 60-milliliter vessel felt massive, like I was Barry Keoghan standing in front of the Minotaur statue in Saltburn. Once I snapped ...
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]