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* Canova's Perseus and Medusa in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ( 2009 ).
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Among Canova's heroic compositions, his Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( photo, right ) appeared soon after his return from Germany.
* The " Rondanini Medusa ", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena ; later used as a model for the Gorgon's head in Antonio Canova's marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( 1798 – 1801 )
Canova's and Museum
As a matter of fact, the Elgin marbles-after an advise by Canova-were acquired by the British Museum, while plaster copies were sent to Florence, Italy, according to Canova's request.
* Canova's Three Graces ( second version ) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London ( 2000 ).
Some of his donations, especially contributions towards the purchases of Canova's The Three Graces by The National Galleries of Scotland and the Madonna of the Pinks by Raphael, foiled acquisition efforts by the J. Paul Getty Museum endowed by his father.
The Three Graces, Canova's first version, now in the Hermitage Museum
Canova's and New
At Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Hebe fountain in Fountain Square follows Canova's model, in patinated cast iron, purchased in 1881 from the J. L. Mott Iron Works of New York, at a cost of $ 1500.
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Neoclassical works includes Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss ( 1787 ).
Perseus and Medusa
Perseus was returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa.
Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis ' hideous son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa.
Perseus and the head of Medusa by Antonio Canova
His weapon was a sword of gold, which killed Argos ; lent to Perseus to kill Medusa.
Cellini's bronze Perseus with the head of Medusa is certainly a masterpiece, designed with eight angles of view, another Mannerist characteristic, but is indeed mannered compared to the Davids of Michelangelo and Donatello.
File: Persee-florence. jpg | Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus with the head of Medusa, 1545 – 1554
There are several versions of the birth of the winged stallion and his brother Chrysaor in the far distant place at the edge of Earth, Hesiod's " springs of Oceanus, which encircles the inhabited earth, where Perseus found Medusa:
In another version, when Perseus beheaded Medusa, they were born of the Earth, fed by the Gorgon's blood.
Medusa, one of the Gorgons, has two children with Poseidon: the winged horse Pegasus and giant Chrysaor, at the instant of her decapitation by Perseus.
* Medusa, a daughter of Sthenelus ( son of Andromeda and Perseus ) and Nicippe
According to Ovid, Proetus ended up changed into stone by Perseus, the grandson of Acrisius ( who had eventually got expelled by Proetus ), upon being made by him to see the head of Medusa.
A metope from a temple known as " Temple C " at Selinus, Sicily, shows, in a better preserved state, Perseus slaying the Gorgon Medusa.
These Cyclopes also created Poseidon's trident, Artemis's bow and arrows of moonlight, Apollo's bow and arrows of sun rays, and Hades's helmet of darkness that was given to Perseus on his quest to kill Medusa.
An adamantine sickle or sword was also used by the hero Perseus to decapitate the Gorgon Medusa while she slept.
By stealing their eye while they were passing amongst themselves, the hero Perseus forced them to tell the whereabouts of the three objects needed to kill Medusa ( in other versions the whereabouts of Medusa herself ), by ransoming their shared eye for the information.
Traditionally, while two of the Gorgons were immortal, Stheno and Euryale, their sister Medusa was not, and she was slain by the mythical demigod and hero Perseus.
Perseus killing Medusa, from temple C at Selinus ( a Greek colony founded in southern Italy c. 628 BCE )-Archaeological Museum of Palermo
King Polydectes sent Perseus to kill Medusa in hopes of getting him out of the way, while he pursued Perseus's mother, Danae.
When Perseus returned to the court of the king, Polydectes asked if he had the head of Medusa.
Perseus grows up to be a hero, killing Medusa and rescuing Andromeda.
Later, after Perseus killed Medusa and rescued Andromeda, the oracle's prophecy came true.
Perseus and Metropolitan
* Canova, Antonio, Perseus ( 1801, Vatican Museums, 180x, Metropolitan Museum of Art )
Perseus and Museum
The monumental Protoattic amphora from the middle of the 7th century BC, with the depiction of Medusa's beheading by Perseus and the blinding of Polyphemos by Odysseus and his companions on its neck, is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis which is located inside the archaeological site of Eleusis.
Perseus rescuing Andromeda from Cetus, depicted on an amphora in the Altes Museum, Berlin
* Perseus Armed by Mercury and Minerva-Birmingham Museum of Art
Perseus and Art
Óleo sobre lienzo, 235 x 129. 2 cm ). jpg | Perseus and Andromeda, 1891, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Perseus and New
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