Artnet news: The Rescuers Madame Medusa Preliminary Storyboard Drawings by Ted Berman Group of 98 (Walt Disney, 1977)
The Rescuers Madame Medusa Preliminary Storyboard Drawings by Ted Berman Group of 98 (Walt Disney, 1977)
Medusa, one of the three monstrous Gorgons, was a snake-haired female who turned anybody who looked upon her to stone. She was finally killed by the hero Perseus, who used her severed head as a weapon against his enemies.
The Gorgons were three monstrous sisters who lived at the edge of the world; they are perhaps best remembered for their snake hair and fearsome appearance. Two of the Gorgons were immortal, but the third—Medusa—was mortal and eventually slain by the hero Perseus.
Perseus, son of Zeus, was a Greek hero from Argos. He is best remembered for killing Medusa, rescuing Andromeda, and founding the city of Mycenae.
The Graeae were three sisters who lived in a remote corner of the world, sharing a single eye and a single tooth among them. They were best known for (reluctantly) helping Perseus in his quest to slay Medusa.
Pegasus was an immortal winged horse who sprang to life from Medusa’s blood after she was slain. He was eventually tamed and bridled by the hero Bellerophon, who rode him into battle against the Chimera.
Then in the windings of a sandy bed Compos’d Medusa’s execrable head. But to prevent the roughness, leafs he threw, And young, green twigs, which soft in waters grew, There soft, and full of sap; but here, when lay’d, Touch’d by the head, that softness soon decay’d. The wonted flexibility quite gone, The tender scyons harden’d into ...