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It includes World Fantasy Award winner “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon,” a subtle, haunting magic realist piece of Americana that made me fall in love with Hand’s work.

So Bellerophon went to the holy place and when he was lying deep in slumber beside the altar he seemed to see the goddess standing before him with some golden thing in her hand.

Initial studies of the scene depicted on the mosaic reveal it shows the mythological character Bellerophon at the court of characters believed to be either Lobates or Proteus.

Diagoras, I think, probably imagined himself as a latter-day Bellerophon, soaring up into the heavens to besiege the gates of Olympus, but using philosophical arguments to disprove their existence rather than the flying horse Pegasus.

When Ray quietly depicts himself as a jeans- and loafer-clad rider on horseback in a full-scale equestrian sculpture now installed in the museum's garden, he's neither Bellerophon astride Pegasus nor some imperial general coercing awe.