Artist: George Frederic Watts
Date: 1885
Size: 94 x 118 cm
Museum: Tate Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
In Greek mythology the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull, was appeased by the annual sacrifice of virgins brought from mainland Athens to Crete. Watts shows the creature gazing out to sea in eager anticipation of his prey; the small bird crushed by his mighty fist symbolises the purity and vulnerability of youth The painting was inspired by a lurid exposure of the traffic in child prostitution by a journalist named WT Stead. The article, called
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