Theseus Killing the Minotaur

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Theseus Killing the Minotaur

Artist	Cima da Conegliano
Year	c. 1505
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	38.2 centimetres (15.0 in) × 30.8 centimetres (12.1 in)
Location	Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Theseus Killing the Minotaur is an oil-on-panel painting by Cima da Conegliano, created c. 1505, now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. It depicts a scene of Greek mythology, when Theseus killed the Minotaur in Crete's labyrinth. ^[1]^[2]^[3]

It measures 38.2 centimetres (15.0 in) by 30.8 centimetres (12.1 in).

References

↑ "Museo Poldi Pezzoli - Case Museo di Milano". Museo Poldi Pezzoli (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-09.
↑ "Scheda tratta da Mauro Natale, catalogo dei dipinti, Milano 1982" (PDF). www.museopoldipezzoli.it (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-10-17.
↑ Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy: in Honour of Jill Kraye. BRILL. 27 November 2017. p. 80. ISBN 978-90-04-35532-3 . Retrieved 27 October 2019.

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