Image of George Frederic Watts's "The Minotaur"
Item
File name
sackett_180 See all items with this value
Title
Image of George Frederic Watts's "The Minotaur" See all items with this value
Description
This is a slightly cropped, blue metal image of "The Minotaur" by George Frederic Watts. The minotaur gazes out into the see clutching something in his human hands. See all items with this value
Place name
Tate Gallery (museum) See all items with this value
Notes
"The Minotaur" borrows directly from the myth of the minotaur set in Knossos on Crete. He was mythologically fed a number of young sacrifices each year. Watts used this as a moral allegory for child marriage and prostitution in 19th century Britain. Its only connection to the Greek world is its use of the Minotaur story. The actual painting belongs to the Tate Museum in London.
Date photographed
April 1967
