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| Keywords: Minotaurus.gif The Minotaur represented here as a man's head and torso joined to a bull's body in reverse of the Classical tradition showing a bull's head on a man's body at the centre of the Labyrinth depicted on a gem Source MAFFEI P A Gemmae Antiche 1709 Pt IV pl 31 Copied from en Image Minotaurus gif originally uploaded by en User Nidara According to Hermann Kern Through the Labyrinth Prestel 2000 item 371 p 202 the original gem is in the Medici Collection in the Palazzo Strozzi Florence Kern assigns the gem to the 16th century stating that Maffei erroneously deemed the piece to be from Classical antiquity The Labyrinth is depicted in a style unknown in Classical times but common in the Renaissance The Minotaur is here represented as not uncommonly in medieval and later times as the reverse of the usual classical representation a bull's head on a man's body This is occasionally mistaken for a centaur; but the association with the Labyrinth makes it clear that it represents the Minotaur and the artist has been careful to carve the hooves in bovine not equine form The tuft on the belly is also typical of a bull not a horse PD-old-100 Minotaur Labyrinths in art Round labyrinths Medici Collection | ||||
