Born from the incestuous union of the King of Athens with his daughter, he survived an attempt on his life by Medea, and went on to kill the Minotaur of Crete. Paintings by Poussin, Moreau, and others.
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Towards the end of his career, he campaigned for students at the Royal Academy Schools to have proper life classes with nude models. And a nude got him into trouble.
You may know him for ‘Broken Vows’, a famous problem picture about unfaithfulness in marriage. Here are some more of his works.
Hogarth’s series spawned several others, the most significant being by Augustus Egg and William Frith.
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