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| Pompeo Batoni Thetis entrusting young Achilles to the Centaur Chiron ca. 1759-61 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Giuseppe Maria Crespi The Centaur Chiron and young Achilles ca. 1695-1705 oil on canvas (grisaille) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Filippo Tagliolini The Centaur Chiron and his pupil Achilles ca. 1785 porcelain Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Roman Empire Centaur 2nd century AD colored marbles Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome |
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| Hellenistic Greek Culture Torso of Centaur (The Gaddi Torso) 1st century BC marble Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Guido Reni Study for the Centaur Nessus ca. 1620 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Centaur 17th century bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Étienne Delaune Combat of Centaurs and Lapiths ca. 1550-70 engraving Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Aimé-Jules Dalou Torso of Centaur ca. 1880 terracotta Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris) |
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| Aimé-Jules Dalou Torso of Centaur ca. 1880 bronze Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris) |
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| Gustave Moreau The Centaur Nessus ca. 1872-73 drawing (study for painting) Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Gustave Moreau The Centaur Nessus abducting Dejanira ca. 1872-73 drawing (study for painting) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Joseph Chinard Abduction of Dejanira by the Centaur Nessus ca. 1780-90 terracotta Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Padovanino (Alessandro Varotari) Abduction of Dejanira by the Centaur Nessus ca. 1630 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
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| David Vinckboons Nessus abducting Dejanira, with Hercules in pursuit 1612 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Charles Le Brun Hercules slaying the Centaurs ca. 1660 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac
Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.
I knew that horse-play, knew it for a murderous thing.
What wholesome sun has ripened is wholesome food to eat,
And that alone; yet I, being driven half insane
Because of some green wing, gathered old mummy wheat
In the mad abstract dark and ground it grain by grain
And after baked it slowly in an oven; but now
I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found
Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew
When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.
Stretch out your limbs and sleep a long Saturnian sleep;
I have loved you better than my soul for all my words,
And there is none so fit to keep a watch and keep
Unwearied eyes upon those horrible green birds.
– W.B. Yeats (1928)
I have loved you better than my soul for all my words,
And there is none so fit to keep a watch and keep
Unwearied eyes upon those horrible green birds.
– W.B. Yeats (1928)