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The scene of when Perseus lends his hands to be held by Andromeda, represents tactile sensuality and naturalistic beauty. The story of Perseus freeing Andromeda is a story of nature and the ideal beauty of sculpture since artists later compared the relationship between natural beauty and the ideal beauty of sculpture. [2]
Perseus flies on horseback, ready to confront the monster beneath him. The sea monster, its scaled hide reflecting the iridescent hues of the ocean depths, rears up menacingly, its jaws gaping wide, poised to consume its innocent victim, Andromeda, the Ethiopian princess. She stands bound and helpless as she gazes at the threat beneath her.
Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus, and two daughters, Gorgophone and Autochthe. Perses was left in Aethiopia and was believed to have been an ancestor of the Persians. The other descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus got the kingdom.
The Andromeda story has been compared to the erotically charged painting, John Everett Millais's The Knight Errant (1870), which embodies similar psychological motifs. [4] The imagery of Perseus and Andromeda was depicted by many artists of the Victorian era, including Edward Burne-Jones [79] and Frederic Leighton.
Perseus continued to the realm of Cepheus whose daughter Andromeda was to be sacrificed to Cetus the sea monster. Perseus rescued Andromeda from the monster by killing it with his sword. [7] He turned Polydectes and his followers to stone with Medusa's head and appointed Dictys the fisherman king. [6] Perseus and Andromeda married and had six ...
Perseus slew a cetus to save Andromeda from being sacrificed to it. The term cetacean (for whale) derives from cetus. In Greek art, ceti were depicted as serpentine fish. The name of the mythological figure Ceto is derived from kētos. The name of the constellation Cetus also derives from this word.
The Thespian myth is an example of the common heroic trope where a young person is supposed to be sacrificed to a monster, and then saved; the most famous of these in Greek mythology is the story of Perseus saving Andromeda from Poseidon's sea-monster. [11]
Perseus Freeing Andromeda is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, dated to 1620, with some sources claiming 1622. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. [1] Prior to 1755, the painting belonged to a Monsieur Pasquier, as part of his collection in Rouen, France. The painting was auctioned in 1755 in Paris.