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In Greek legend Phineus was engaged to the princess Andromeda until Perseus heroically killed a monster called the Gorgon, rescued Andromeda and supplanted him. Phineus then attempted to kill Perseus at the wedding and was turned into stone by the...

The Three Graces were three daughters of Zeus who personified grace, beauty and charm. Hesiod, in the 'Theogony', names them as Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia. In paintings, they often accompany Venus, and are generally depicted in a group, the cen...

Daughter of King Minos of Crete, Ariadne loved first Theseus, whom she rescued from the labyrinth, then Bacchus, after Theseus had left her on the island of Naxos. According to Philostratos ('Imagines' 1: 15), Ariadne was asleep when Bacchus enco...

The Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 - 1446) is best known for designing and building the dome of Florence cathedral. Earlier he worked as a goldsmith and sculptor, but after having lost the competition for the design of the doors...

The Purification of the Temple, also known as the Cleansing of the Temple, is recounted with variations in all four Gospels. Christ saw that the temple in Jerusalem had been turned into a marketplace by traders and moneylenders and he drove them o...

Margaret was supposedly born in Antioch. She became a Christian against her father's wishes, and he turned her out of his house. She then lived in the fields as a shepherdess, a guise in which she is sometimes depicted. More popularly, she is the...

The Tate Gallery opened in 1897 with a benefaction from Sir Henry Tate. It was initially established as the National Gallery of British Art under the National Gallery Trustees, but the National Gallery and Tate Gallery Act of 1954 established it a...

This story is told in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' (3: 410-613). Narcissus was a beautiful youth, and Echo the nymph who loved him. Narcissus did not return her love, and as his punishment, Nemesis, daughter of Night and an avenging deity, caused him to...

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