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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]
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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".
Paul Detlefsen (October 3, 1899 – August 1, 1986) was a Danish-born American commercial artist of the mid to late 20th century, associated with the "Hollywood scene". [1] He is known for his realistic depictions of serene, nostalgic scenes; his works were reproduced in a popular line of calendars and other prints.
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 ...
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.
Lycastus had a son named Minos, after his grandfather, born by Lycastus' wife, Ida, daughter of Corybas. "Minos II"—the "bad" king Minos—is the son of this Lycastus, and was a far more colorful character than his father and grandfather. This is the Minos in the myths of Theseus, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, Daedalus, Glaucus, and Nisus.