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Perseus Freeing Andromeda is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo c. executed in 1510 or 1513 It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence Italy.The painting is mentioned in 1568 by Giorgio Vasari who states that it was commissioned by Filippo Strozzi the Elder and gifted by Giovanni Battista Strozzi to a member of Cosimo de’ Medici’s personnel. The work shows the mythological hero Perseus killing the monster who had entrapped Andromeda.
