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20.2 cm × 15.6 cm (8.0 in × 6.1 in) Location. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis. Perseus Rescuing Andromeda is the title of two paintings by the Italian artist Giuseppe Cesari, also known as Cavaliere d'Arpino. Cesari was a prominent late Renaissance and early Baroque painter, known for his work in Rome during the late 16th and early 17th ...
1510 or 1513. Medium. Oil. Dimensions. 28 in × 48 in (71 cm × 122 cm) Location. Uffizi, Florence. Perseus Freeing Andromeda or Liberation of Andromeda is a painting created by Piero di Cosimo, during the Italian Renaissance. The painting was praised by critics and art historians for its aesthetic, cosmological and political implications.
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 ...
Ritual stone palette a Nereid (Sea Nymph) and a Cherub riding a Sea Monster (Ketos). Gandhara.. Cetus are often depicted fighting Perseus or as the mount of a Nereid. [8]Queen Cassiopeia boasted that she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful than the Nērēides (in most later works called by the Roman form, the Nereids), which invoked the wrath of Poseidon who sent the sea monster ...
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Dimensions. 235 cm × 129.2 cm (93 in × 50.9 in) Location. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK. Perseus and Andromeda is an oil painting by Lord Frederic Leighton. Completed in 1891, the year it was displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts, [2] it depicts the Greek mythological story of Andromeda. [3][4] In contrast to the basis of a classical ...
In the scene of Perseus and Andromeda, Perseus flies to the rock where Andromeda is chained in order to rescue her, and in the background, Perseus asks Andromeda's father, Cepheus, for her hand in marriage. [43] The remainder of the room was painted red and decorated with thin candelabras.
The Andromeda Rock is a rock jutting out of the Mediterranean in front of the old town of Jaffa, in present-day Israel, where it serves as a local tourist attraction. According to Greek mythology, this was the site where King Cepheus 's daughter Andromeda was chained and sacrificed to a sea monster , but was timely rescued by Perseus , who then ...