Henry Fuseli, 1820 - Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons - fine art print

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Original artwork description from the museum's website (© - Art Institute Chicago - Art Institute Chicago)

Fuseli’s unfinished painting depicts the ancient Greek hero Perseus, son of Zeus, a demigod who slew Medusa, the snake-haired Gorgon whose glance turned men to stone. On the ground lies the decapitated body of Medusa, above which the airborne Perseus flees with her head, which retained its deadly power. Medusa’s two sisters, at right, unsuccessfully attempt to stop Perseus.The painting’s source was the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s the Shield of Heracles (translated into English in 1815), an imagined description in verse of the scenes found on Heracles’s beautifully crafted shield, including Perseus slaying Medusa.

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Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons is a painting painted by the male painter Henry Fuseli in 1820. The version of the artwork had the following size: 552 x 676 mm. Oil and oil wash, over graphite and with touches of pen and black ink, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white japanese paper was applied by the European artist as the technique for the piece of art. Nowadays, this artwork can be viewed in in the collection of Art Institute Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. With courtesy of Art Institute Chicago (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. Besides this, the alignment is in portrait format with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Henry Fuseli was a male poet, illustrator, painter, drawer, whose artistic style can primarily be classified as Romanticism. The painter was born in the year 1741 in Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and passed away at the age of 84 in the year 1825.

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