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  2. The Minotaur (painting) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The House of Asterion - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Minotaur - Wikipedia

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    The short story The House of Asterion by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges gives the Minotaur's story from the monster's perspective. [ 45 ] 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.

  5. José Francisco Borges - Wikipedia

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    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."

  6. Category:Minotaur in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Minotaur (painting) Minotaur (comics) Minotaur (film) Minotaur (New-Gen) Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl; The Minotaur (opera) Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete;

  7. Category:Paintings of Greek myths - Wikipedia

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    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)

  8. Labyrinths (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.

  9. Borghese Collection - Wikipedia

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    Cardinal Scipione Borghese, an important art collector, was the collection's instigator and collected the majority of the collection. His collection was poetically described as early as 1613 by Scipione Francucci. In 1607, the Pope gave the Cardinal 107 paintings which had been confiscated from the studio of the painter Cavalier D'Arpino.