Perseus Rescuing Andromeda

Perseus Rescuing AndromedaAntique intaglio illustration of Perseus saving Andromeda from the sea monster, Cetus. In Greek myth, Andromeda was chained to the rocks as a sacrifice, but Perseus defeated the beast and rescued her, later taking her as his wife. All engravings have been digitally restored and enhanced in house from original scans. Each one retains a high level of detail, making them particularly striking in large print format.

sensuality and strength

at the far eastern edge of the Black Sea

the Medici Venus

the task of his eleventh labour in sight

The Nemean Lion was an enormous beast that had been ravaging the countryside around Nemea in the Peloponnese

of ritual madness

too seductive — the parish priests complained it was distracting worshippers rather than warning them

The story comes from the end of Ovid and Sophocles: Hercules receives a tunic dipped in the blood of the centaur Nessus from his wife Deianira

The engraved vases in Teyler's series sit in a long European tradition of ornamental printmaking after antique marble — a tradition that reached its fullest expression in the monumental plates of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) a century later

A black and white print of Guillaume Geefs' Le génie du mal (1848) — "The Genius of Evil

the diazoma

her eyes downcast