Image: Antoine-Louis Barye - Lapith Combating a Centaur - Walters 2736 - Profile
Description: The hero Theseus has leapt on Bianor's back and seized him by the neck as he prepares to deliver a deadly blow. Barye has depicted an incident from The Metamorphoses, a history of the world by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17). In ancient Greece, the Lapiths, a mythical people of Thessaly, invited to the centaurs to a wedding. The centaurs were mythical creatures, half man and half horse, who roamed Arcadia, a region of Greece, and were notoriously destructive. All the centaurs were killed following a fight that erupted when they tried to carry off the Lapith women.
Title: Lapith Combating a Centaur
Credit: Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork
Author: Antoine-Louis Barye
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