Centaur Gallery

Hercules and the Centaurs: Hercules holds the head of a centaur with his left hand

Hercules and the Centaurs: Hercules holds the head of a centaur with his left hand and raises his club with his right hand, in the foreground and background are fallen and fleeing centaurs, from the series The Labors of Hercules, 1608

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Royal Academy - Prize Sculpture, 1844. Creator: Unknown

Royal Academy - Prize Sculpture, 1844. After The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapithae, a sculpture by Edward Bowring Stephens. For this beautiful bas-relief, 7 feet by 4 feet 6 inches, Mr. Edward B. Stephens received the gold medal at the last distribution of prizes at the Royal Academy [in London]. It is an exquisitely classic composition, representing the celebrated battle of the Centaurs and the Lapiths'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I

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Centaur and Lapith (south metope XXXI) from the Parthenon, Greek, c438-432 BC. Artist

Centaur and Lapith (south metope XXXI) from the Parthenon, Greek, c438-432 BC. Designed by Phidias, the Parthenon frieze adorned the the temple of Athena on the Acropolis in Athens and represents a procession in honour of the Olympian gods. The majority of what survives of the frieze is today in either the British Museum or the Acropolis Museum in Athens. From the British Museum, London

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