Medea, with her children dead, flees Corinth in a chariot pulled by dragons, Germán Hernández Amores, circa 1887
The work represents medea, who, jealous of her husband jason's second marriage to glauce, decides to kill her rival and her own children to take revenge on jason, and flees with their corpses in helios' chariot to the sacred forest of hera, in athens. Object Type: painting. Date: circa 1887. Dimensions: height: 225 cm (88.5 in); width: 166 cm (65.3 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Museo del Prado. Medea, con los hijos muertos, huye de Corinto en un carro tirado por dragones (Museo del Prado)FXD