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Source 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.
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Document identity
localId
37364
label
Lapith Combating a Centaur
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
37364
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Lapith Combating a Centaur
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.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
modeled 1846-1848
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
sculpture (visual works)
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
34.6
height
38.1
depth
13.7
dimensionsRaw
13 5/8 x 15 x 5 3/8 in. (34.6 x 38.1 x 13.7 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Cast through from model: BARYE.
med
bronze with dark green over dark brown-black patina
creator_ids
6082
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
1956
631
2310
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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5d80c7726f696c10
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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730240aa703a4a52
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no
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no