Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Le Triomphe de Silène (The Triumph of Silenus) c.1636 Oil on canvas, 142.9 × 120.5 cm National Gallery, London This playful scene celebrates Silenus, companion to Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and drunkenness. Silenus, a naked old…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La lotta tra Ercole e Nesso (The Fight of Hercules and Nessus) c.1660–1665 Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 167.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Producer: Franco Rossellini Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini Based on: Medea by Euripides Genre: Drama | Epic | Fantasy | Mythology | Tragedy Music: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante Country: Italia | France | West Germany Language: Italian Studio: Euro International Films…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths 17th century Oil on canvas, 44 cm x 51.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pallade e il Centauro (Pallas and the Centaur) c.1482 Tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Like Botticelli’s other paintings with a mythological subject, this work too, showing the young woman armed with a battle…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Teseo e il centauro (Theseus and the Centaur) from 1795 (studies); 1810–1819 (version) Marble, 360 × 375 × 141 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Battaglia dei centauri (Battle of the Centaurs) 1490–1492 Marble bas-relief, 84.5 x 88 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze The earliest mention of the Battle of the Centaurs is to be found in a letter written in…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Allegoria sacra (Sacred Allegory) c.1490–1500 Oil on wood panel, 73 x 119 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze One of the most enigmatic and fascinating works of the Italian Renaissance, this painting by Bellini shows the Madonna seated on…