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Gallery
Ovid Met.

Edward John Poynter, “Andromeda,” 1869–1870

A nude woman with red hair and a flowing blue drape stands on rocks by a stormy sea, her wrists bound

Note Poynter’s 1872 painting of “Perseus and Andromeda” (OGCMA0881PerseusAndromeda_Poynter2) which is now lost. For a brief article by Anthea Brooke and bibliography on the 1872 painting, see Victorian Web.

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.