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| Edward Poynter Centaur and Dragon before 1919 watercolor, bodycolor British Museum |
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| William Harcourt Hooper Trade-card proof - Muse receiving letter from Centaur and letter from Triton ca. 1880-1910 wood-engraving British Museum |
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| John Flaxman Battle of Centaur and nude man before 1826 drawing British Museum |
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| John Sell Cotman The Centaur 1806 wash-drawing inspired by the arrival of the Elgin Marbles in London British Museum |
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
My spirit is too weak – mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick eagle looking at the sky.
Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep
That I have not the cloudy winds to keep
Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye.
Such dim-conceived glories of the brain
Bring round the heart an undescribable feud;
So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,
That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
Wasting of old time – with a billowy main –
A sun – a shadow of a magnitude.
– by John Keats, "composed on 1 or 2 March 1817 after visiting the British Museum with Benjamin Robert Haydon to see the Parthenon frieze which Lord Elgin had recently acquired for the nation. According to Joseph Severn, Keats went 'again and again to see the Elgin Marbles, and would sit for an hour or more at a time beside them rapt in revery'."
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| Richard Earlom after Giovanni Battista Cipriani Battle of Theseus and Centaur 1789 etching, aquatint British Museum |
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| Caroline Metz Centaur and woman confronted by monster ca. 1773-94 drawing British Museum |
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| follower of Agostino Carracci Centaur abducting woman, pursued by a man before 1657 drawing British Museum |
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| Pasquale Ottino Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs before 1630 wash drawing British Museum |
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| Pieter de Bailliu after Peter Paul Rubens Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs with abduction of Hippodamia ca. 1620-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Charles David after Cornelis Cort after Frans Floris Hercules preventing Centaurs from abducting Hippodamia 1620s engraving British Museum |
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| Antonio Tempesta Hercules battling Centaurs 1608 etching British Museum |
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| Étienne Delaune Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs with abduction of Hippodamia ca. 1550-72 engraving British Museum |
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| Battista Franco Abduction of Dejanira by Centaur Nessus, resisted by Hercules ca. 1530-61 etching, engraving British Museum |
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| attributed to Allaert Claesz Ornament design with Centaurs bearing off women ca. 1520-60 engraving British Museum |
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| attributed to Pietro Bergantini workshop after Luca Signorelli Dish of tin-glazed earthenware - Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs 1525 maiolica British Museum |