John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, 1829-1908
ANDROMEDA
Oil on canvas
127 by 53cm., 50 by 21in.
Private collection
Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife
Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more
beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage
Aethiopia as divine punishment. Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a
rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, but is saved from death by Perseus.
As a subject, Andromeda has been popular in art
since classical times; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's
rescue of the intended victim of an archaic hieros gamos, giving rise to the
"princess and dragon" motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived
in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's account. More
on Andromeda
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (20 January 1829 —
2 August 1908) is an English
artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often
regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. His work is also studied within the
context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. As a painter, Stanhope worked in
oil, watercolor, fresco, and mixed media. His subject matter was mythological,
allegorical, biblical, and contemporary. Stanhope was born in Yorkshire,
England, and died in Florence, Italy. He was the uncle and teacher of the
painter Evelyn De Morgan. More on John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
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