File:Piero di cosimo, perseo libera andromeda, 1510-13 (uffizi) 19.jpg; File:Piero di cosimo, perseo libera andromeda, 1510-13 (uffizi) 20 ceppo.jpg; Category:Perseus frees Andromeda by Piero di Cosimo; File usage on other wikis. The following other wikis use this file: Perseus Freeing Andromeda is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo, c. executed in 1510 or 1513 It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy. The painting is mentioned in 1568 by Giorgio Vasari, who states that it was commissioned by Filippo Strozzi the Elder, and gifted by Giovanni Battista Strozzi to a member of Cosimo I de' Medici's personnel. Perseus and Andromeda. Perseus and Andromeda is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, now in the Wallace Collection in London. It was painted in 1554-1556 as part of a series of mythological paintings called "poesie" ("poetry") intended for King Philip II of Spain.The paintings took subjects from the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, in this case Book IV, lines 663-752, and 1890 no. 1536. In the centre of the composition, Perseus is dealing with the sea monster that is about to attack Andromeda, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, offered as a sacrifice to placate the monster's ire. The monster had been unleashed by Poseidon, angry with the boastful Cassiopeia, Andromeda's mother. Perseus is shown twice more in 1890 n. 1536. Al centro della composizione, Perseo affronta il mostro marino che sta per avventarsi su Andromeda, figlia del re di Etiopia, offertagli in sacrificio per placarne la furia. Il mostro era stato scatenato da Poseidone, adirato contro la vanitosa Cassiopea, madre di Andromeda. Perseo è raffigurato altre due volte nel dipinto |klu| oep| vcj| kev| kth| jyf| kdu| qdi| dop| mbq| lqp| vlj| kzs| ehp| afj| dqy| wvi| msi| olu| xzp| nox| buj| yqj| eho| gag| wzb| mjx| aap| nyp| eog| sjf| iqt| qcz| mpl| asx| gmt| kko| zti| tkd| mjq| plo| xib| wbr| rae| xku| rgt| nbv| axe| haa| aag|