Tag: Centaur
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01 Painting, Religious Art, Francesco Guarino’s Saint Anthony Abbot and the Centaur, with footnotes # 51
Sold for 40.625 USD in Jan 2011 The life of St Anthony Abbot was popularised during the thirteenth century by Jacopo da Voragine’s Golden Legend. Towards the end of his life, while on his way to visit St Paul the Hermit, who lived in the wilderness, St Anthony met a centaur who showed him the path…
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11 Works, Artists’ Interpretations of Hellenic legends, The Rape of Deianira, with footnotes #188
Deianira, Deïanira was a Calydonian princess in Greek mythology whose name translated as “man-destroyer” or “destroyer of her husband”. She was the wife of Heracles and, in late Classical accounts, his unwitting murderer, killing him with the poisoned Shirt of Nessus. She is the main character in Sophocles’ play Women of Trachis… Please follow link…
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11 Work, Artists’ Interpretations of Hellenic legends, The Rape of Deianira, with footnotes #188
Hercules pursuing the centaur Nessus, who wants to kidnap his wife Dejanira. However, the scene only gives Veronese the opportunity to describe the involvement of the figures in the mysterious realm of nature — an old theme of Venetian painting. Veronese’s latest style can also be recognized by the clearly darkened, autumnal colors and the open brushstrokes.…
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Max Pietschmann, A Centaur, kidnapping a nymph, fighting with the sea god Triton, c. 1886 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 11b
Max Pietschmann, (1865 – 1952) A Centaur, kidnapping a nymph, fighting with the sea god Triton, c. 1886 Oil on canvas 47,4 x 34,9 cm. Private collection A centaur is a mythological creature with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse. The centaurs were usually said to have been…
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