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Perseus is the 24th largest constellation in the sky and is visible across the Northern Hemisphere We explore the ancient constellation in more detail here.
(Last Chance): The lovers are soaring through gold. In Giambattista Tiepolo’s fresco “Perseus and Andromeda,” which was painted around 1730-31 and luxuriated across the ceiling of a Milanese ...
Giambattista Tiepolo, "Perseus and Andromeda," ca. 1730–31 Photo by Michael Bodycomb/the Frick Collection Over the course of World War II, some 65 percent of Milan’s historic monuments were ...
In this month’s early evening Colorado sky, however, an interested observer can trace out the starry outlines of virtually all of the principal characters in the exciting saga of the Greek hero ...
Between 1730 and 1731, the 24-year-old Giambattisa Tiepolo frescoed five ceilings in the palace of Count Carlo Archinto in Milan, the artist’s first job outside his native Venice.
It all came off – Medusa was killed; and the drops of her blood spilled out to form Pegasus. But on his way back, Perseus encountered another challenge: a beautiful maiden about to become a sea ...
A view of Pegasus and its companions in the Nov. 17, 2018, night sky at 6:30 p.m. local time over New York. (Image credit: ... Perseus and Pegasus arrived just in a nick of time.
Many of the constellations have epic tales of heroism with a lot of romance mixed in, both in good and bad ways. One of the best is the saga of Perseus the Hero, a constellation perched fairly high… ...