Rubens

The myth of Perseus and Andromeda is one of the most famous. Everyone knows about the monster that wanted to devour the beautiful maiden. And about a brave hero who defeated the fiend and saved the beauty. But we hardly remember the details. But the details of this myth are one tastier than the other. And the backstory on why Andromeda's parents dutifully gave...

Perseus and Andromeda. The main characters and symbols of the painting by Rubens Read completely "

How to combine chaos with harmony? How to make mortal danger beautiful? How to depict movement on a fixed canvas? All this was masterfully embodied by Peter Paul Rubens. And we see all these incongruous things in his painting “Hunting for Lions”.