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The scene of when Perseus lends his hands to be held by Andromeda, represents tactile sensuality and naturalistic beauty. The story of Perseus freeing Andromeda is a story of nature and the ideal beauty of sculpture since artists later compared the relationship between natural beauty and the ideal beauty of sculpture. [2]
In Greek mythology, Andromeda (/ ænˈdrɒmɪdə /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομέδα, romanized: Androméda or Ἀνδρομέδη, Andromédē) is the daughter of Cepheus, the king of Aethiopia, and his wife, Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia boasts that she (or Andromeda) is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends the sea monster Cetus to ...
Perseus and Andromeda. Perseus and Andromeda is a 1622 painting in the Hermitage Museum by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens of the ancient Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda after the former's defeat of the Gorgon. The composition is similar to that of an earlier painting by Rubens, Perseus frees Andromeda (now Gemäldegalerie, Berlin ).
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Perseus Freeing Andromeda is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, dated to 1620, with some sources claiming 1622. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. [1] Prior to 1755, the painting belonged to a Monsieur Pasquier, as part of his collection in Rouen, France. The painting was auctioned in ...
Perseus Freeing Andromeda by Piero di Cosimo, c. 1510, one of the few earlier easel paintings of the topic Uffizi. In Greek mythology, the kingdom of Ethiopia was ruled by the beautiful but vain queen, Cassiope; she maintained that her beauty, and that of her daughter Andromeda, was superior to that of the sea nymphs, who were the daughters of Poseidon, the god of the sea.
The king of Ethiopia Cepheus and the queen Cassiopeia thank Perseus for freeing their daughter Andromeda, La Délivrance d'Andromède (1679) Pierre Mignard, Louvre. Cassiopeia boasted that she (or her daughter Andromeda), was more beautiful than all the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus.
Princess and dragon is an archetypical premise common to many legends, fairy tales, and chivalric romances. [1] Northrop Frye identified it as a central form of the quest romance. The story involves an upper-class woman, generally a princess or similar high-ranking nobility, saved from a dragon, either a literal dragon or a similar danger, by ...
Perseus with the Head of Medusa is a bronze sculpture made by Benvenuto Cellini in the period 1545–1554. The sculpture stands on a square base which has bronze relief panels depicting the story of Perseus and Andromeda, similar to a predella on an altarpiece. [1] It is located in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence ...