Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl
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Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl is a 1933 etching by Pablo Picasso
remarked as the first example in line among several works to be realized through the remaining part of the decade by the painter where he used the theme of the legendary Minoan
creature Minotaur
recurrently.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
remarked as the first example in line among several works to be realized through the remaining part of the decade by the painter where he used the theme of the legendary Minoan
Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans...
creature Minotaur
Minotaur
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur , as the Greeks imagined him, was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, "part man and part bull"...
recurrently.