PerseusAndromeda1.0168

PerseusAndromeda1.0168_Thorvaldsen

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B. Thorvaldesen, "Perseus Rescuing Andromeda," roundel relief, 1839, Alte Nationalgallerie, Berlin

Iconographically interesting for Perseus' conveyance on talaria and the use of Pegasus to transport Andromeda.

Thorvaldsen A486 is a plaster cast of the original plaster model A742, also attributed to 1839.

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.