Perseus Freeing Andromeda Perseus Freeing Andromeda 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 I de' Medici's personnel. The work shows the mythological hero Perseus killing the monster who had entrapped Andromeda. Piero focused on attention to detail in the background, perhaps inspired by the contemporary Flemish school. Details include
Hindsiclava andromeda do not become nodulous. The anal fasciole is narrow, concave, somewhat removed from the suture, the sulcus shallow. In the type specimen the outer lip is thin and sharp. The inner lip is erased, but if the specimen is immature the outer lip would probably be thickened with a subsutural callus in the adult. The white columella is straight, and attenuated in front. The siphonal canal is distinct and not recurved. This marine species occurs from to Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico to Panama Hindsiclava andromeda Hindsiclava andromeda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the