Search Results: Centaur

A centaur was a creature from Greek mythology which was half-man and half-horse. The head, arms and torso of a centaur were human and joined at the waist to the body and legs of a horse. Centaurs represented barbarism and unbridled chaos...

A metope depicting a centaur battling a Lapith, from the Parthenon, 5th century BCE. (British Museum, London)

Roman mosaic found at Hadrian's Villa depicting a pair of centaurs fighting wild cats, c. 130 CE. The mosaic is made of thousands of small, closely set tesserae (1-2 millimiters) called "opus vermiculatum." (Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.)

A Roman mosaic from Arausio (Orange, France) depicting two centaurs. 2nd century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Orange)

Ancient Roman fresco (50-79 CE), Pompeii, Italy.

A statue by Giambologna depicting Hercules fighting the centaur Nessos following the latter's attack on Hercules' wife Deianeira as they crossed the river Evenus. 1599 CE (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy).

A Lapith fighting a Centaur, regarded as one of the finest metopes from the Parthenon. 5th century BCE. (British Museum, London)

The centaur Chiron teaching Achilles how to play the lyre, Roman fresco from Herculaneum. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Pallas and the Centaur, oil on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482-1483. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence.

A fragment of a gilded silver wine jug from southern Spain (10.5 cm in height; ca. 1st cent. BCE; APM inv. no. 15.375). The image is “rolled” out to compensate for the curvature of the vase neck. The scene illustrates a Nereid riding on the...