minotaur

Examples of minotaur in the following topics:

• The Minoans

  • The many rooms of the "palace" at Knossos were so oddly shaped and disordered to Evans that they reminded him of the labyrinth of the Minotaur.
  • According to myth, Minos' wife had an illicit union with a white bull, which lead to the birth of a half bull and half man, known as the Minotaur.
  • King Minos had his court artist and inventor, Daedalus, build an inescapable labyrinth for the Minotaur to live in.

• Picasso

  • During the 1930s, the minotaur replaced the harlequin as a common motif in his work.
  • His use of the minotaur came partly from his contact with the surrealists, who often used it as their symbol, and it appears in Picasso's Guernica.
  • The minotaur and Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter are heavily featured in his celebrated Vollard Suite of etchings.

• Painting

  • From this union, Pasiphaë birthed the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster.

• Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

  • The other side depicts Theseus, who slayed the Minotaur, with Athenian youths and his wife Ariadne.

• The Ancient Greek Gods and Their Temples

  • A third hero, Theseus, was an Athenian hero known for slaying King Minos's Minotaur.

• Painting in the Early Roman Empire

  • From this union, Pasiphaë birthed the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster.