0667Minotaur

0667Minotaur_Rubens

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Peter Paul Rubens, "Daedalus and the Labyrinth," (showing the maze to the Minotaur), painting for Torre de la Parada lost in the sack of 1710, but retained in Rubens' oil sketch at La Coruña, Spain, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, inv. 285 (stolen in 1986)

Amazingly, Rubens seems to be alone in depicting Minotaur as taurine body/human face.
Check LIMC s.v. Minotaur.

A faint human figure tends to a horned, brown quadruped resembling a bull or goat, standing on light ground

Svetlana Alpers, The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada, Corpus Rubensium, 9 (Brussels, 1971): get p. 197 description of 14a and plate 90 (badly cropped)

J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: a critical catalogue (Princeton 1979): get p. 269 of vol. 1 and plate 191 of vol. 2.

Imge from F.D. Platas, "A Companion for Daedalus: the exceptional iconography of Rubens' Minotaur," online at academia.edu.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.