Protagonists

Piero di Cosimo
Perseus freeing Andromeda
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Joachim Wtewael
Perseus and Andromeda
1611
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Theodor van Thulden after Francesco Primaticcio
Le Combat d'Ulysse et de ses fidèles contre les prétendants
1632
etching
Bibliothèque nationale de France

Lucas van Uden
Landscape with Ulysses and Nausicaä
1635
oil on panel
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham

Theodor van Thulden
Perseus freeing Andromeda
1646
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy

Alessandro Tiarini
Achilles discovered among Daughters of Lycomedes
before 1668
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Pierre Mignard
Perseus and Andromeda
1678-79
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Pierre Puget
Perseus and Andromeda
1684
marble
Musée du Louvre

Joseph Werner the Younger
Perseus among the Nymphs
ca. 1685
oil on canvas
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich

Giacomo Bolognini
Perseus and Andromeda
ca. 1710
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Francesco de Mura
Achilles discovered among Daughters of Lycomedes
ca. 1750
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Anton Raphael Mengs
Infant Achilles dipped in Waters of the Styx
ca. 1759
drawing
British Museum

François Rude
Theseus recovering the Arms of his Father
after 1808
bronze
Musée du Louvre

Étienne Ramey
Theseus and the Minotaur
1826
marble
Musée du Louvre

Rafael Tejeo ( Rafael Tegeo Diaz)
Achilles and Hector
ca. 1830
oil on canvas
private collection

Jacques Lipchitz
Theseus
1943
etching and aquatint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Andrew Gibbon Williams
Figures (Achilles and Patroclus)
ca. 1980
oil on paper
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

The Temple

Who are they talking to in the big temple?

If there were a reply it would be a conversation:

It is because there is none that they are fascinated.

What does not reply is the answer to prayer.

– C.H. Sisson (1965)