About 150 results for ‘Centaur’
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Centaur
In Greek mythology, a centaur or hippocentaur is a member of a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse. In early Attic and Boeotian vase-paintings, they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be. This half-human and half-animal composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron. The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera). Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either himself the son of Ixion and Nephele (inserting an additional generation) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithus, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins. Centaurs were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia. Centaurs continued to figure in literary forms of Roman mythology. A pair of them draw the chariot of Constantine the Great and his family in the Great Cameo of Constantine (c314-16), which embodies wholly pagan imagery.
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
CENTAURE AU GALOP ENLEVANT UNE FEMME
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
- Kidnapping
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
FEMME ENJAMBANT L'ENCOLURE D'UN CENTAURE, AU VERSO ENLEVE...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
- Kidnapping
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
FEUILLE D'ETUDES.DEUX PERSONNAGES DE PROFIL, L'UN AUX PIE...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
CENTAURE ENLEVANT UNE FEMME, AU VERSO CAVALIER ENLEVANT U...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
- Kidnapping
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
CENTAURE DE PROFIL, AU VERSO CAVALIER
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
CENTAURE ENLEVANT UNE FEMME
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
- Kidnapping
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
- Michelangelo
FEUILLE DE CROQUIS AU RECTO ; FEUILLE D'ETUDES AU VERSO
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
HOMME SUR UN CENTAURE AU RECTO ; DEUX ORPHELINS DERRIERE ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
HOMME SUR UN CENTAURE AU RECTO ; DEUX CROQUIS DE CAVALIER...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
- Equestrianism
- Horse
- Man
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
CENTAURE A LA LYRE AU RECTO ; HOMME AUX BRAS LEVES AU VERSO
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
ENLEVEMENT D'UNE FEMME PAR UN CENTAURE AU RECTO ; GROUPE ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
- Kidnapping
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Enfant dansant et centaure (deux esquisses) [titre attribué]
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bow and arrow
- Centaur
- Child
- Folk dance
- Leaf
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- Date:
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Bon Boullogne
HERCULE COMBAT LES CENTAURES
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Baptiste de Champaigne
L'EDUCATION D'ACHILLE : LA LECON D'EQUITATION
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Achille Etna Michallon
PAYSAGE : THESEE POURSUIVANT LES CENTAURES
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Bartolomeo di Giovanni
LES NOCES DE THETIS ET DE PELEE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 15th century
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CENTAURE ENLEVANT UNE FEMME
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
- Kidnapping
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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ENLEVEMENT DE PROSERPINE
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Centaur
- Kidnapping
- Proserpina
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Antoine Coysevox
TRIOMPHE DE LA FRANCE SUR LES MERS
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Achille et le Centaure Chiron, d'après une fresque antique
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Enlèvement de Déjanire
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bow and arrow
- Centaur
- Deianira
- Heracles
- Kidnapping
- Nessus (mythology)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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