PerseusAndromeda1.0190

PerseusAndromeda1.0190_Moreau

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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
OGCMA s.v. "Perseus and Andromeda"

Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898, "Perseus and Andromeda," oil on canvas, c. 1870, Bristol, City Art Gallery.

The image at right is derived from Lessing Culture and Fine Arts via ArtStor, an image found also at the collections.louvre.fr site.

Oil painting of Andromeda chained to a rock, awaiting a sea monster, as Perseus descends from the sky to rescue her

V. Morgenthaler cites this piece in Reception of Myth and Mythology s.v. "Perseus".

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.