Andromeda Chained
Andromeda’s mother was a foolish woman and claimed her daughter
was more beautiful than the goddess of beauty herself, Venus. No god or goddess
can be so challenged. The gods’ minion, Ammon, had Andromeda chained to the
rocks above the sea where a raging dragon was her jailer.
Not long after,
Perseus happened by. Immediately his blood ran hot with the heat of love. He
threw himself at the feet of her grieving parents and offered himself, a son of
Jove, as a worthy son-in-law if he was successful at slaying the dragon.
A
battle too fierce to relate ensued, but all ended gloriously with the dragon’s
bloody death. Perseus celebrated the victory by raising alters to his favorite
gods, Mercury, Minerva and great Jove, and then went on to regale the wedding
guests with his tales of valor, including his triumph over Medusa whose
snake-haired head he carried everywhere.
20" x 60"
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