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Gallery
Ovid Met.

Pierre PUGET, “Perseus and Andromeda” 1678–84, Louvre, inv. no. M.R. 2076

Dramatic marble sculpture of a man carrying a woman with a child clinging to his leg, reaching for a higher point

Sculpted for Louis XIV for placement in Versailles gardens.

Medusa’s head just visible by Perseus’ left foot.

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.