Perseus assisted by Minerva, killing Medusa

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Perseus assisted by Minerva, killing Medusa

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etching 165 x 258 mm - AR unciman inv. & fecit 1774 (both figures 7's are reversed) Five years older than Fuseli, Runciman also drew on poetry and mythology for his subject matter, and may have influenced the younger artist's manner of depicting the human figure. In Ovid's Metamorphosis the three Gorgons had a hideous appearance which turned who...

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1774

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Alexander Runciman

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black-and-white prints / mythology / goddesses / gods / figures (representations) / mythical beings / slayings / swords / attributes (symbols) / Greeks / classicism / Romantic/European / Print

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