Medea
Medea
3D
Published 2019-10-23T14:52:21+00:00
In Greek mythology, Medea is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios. Medea features in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, appearing in Hesiod's Theogony around 700 BC but best known from Euripides' tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica. Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress and is often depicted as a priestess of the goddess Hecate.
This sculpture by the French artist Jean-Jacques Pradier depicts the section of the narrative in Jason and the Argonauts where Medea, forced to fall in love with Jason by Aphrodite and Eros, escapes with him after distracting her father by killing her brother Absytus. In some versions Medea is said to have dismemebered her brother's body and scattered his parts n an island, knowing her father would stop to retrieve them for a proper burial.
These 3D scans have been produced with an Artec Eva with the ambition to produce a digital representation as close to the original as possible. However, the presented scans are not to be regarded as duplicates as due to inaccessible areas etc deviations from the original might occur
Photography : CC BY-SA-4.0 - Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum
| Date published | 23/10/2019 |
| Schwierigkeitsgrad | Medium |
| Title | Medea |
| Dimension | Height 91 cm |
| Accession | NMSk 2233 |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Credit | Purchase 1977 Hedda and N.D. Qvist Fund |
| Record | http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=28234&viewType=detailView |
| Place | Nationalmuseum |
