Batalla de los Centauros

Title

Batalla de los Centauros

Period

1550-1600;

Geographic

Thessaly

Ancient Greece

Larissa

Description

This engraving depicts a chaotic battle between centaurs and the Lapiths. The battle broke out due to one of the centaurs, Eurytus, stealing the bride of Pirithous, the king of the Lapiths. The centaurs were invited to the wedding ceremony, however, Eurytus betrayed Pirithous by being overtaken by Hippodame’s beauty and dragging her off. Eurytus is illustrated almost in the center of the engraving with Hippodame in his arms as he carries her away. Her arms are in the air as she pleads for help. Pirithous’ friend, Theseus, is illustrated to the right of Eurytus with a helmet on, and his sword behind his head, ready to swing at the centaur and save Hippodame.

Image Creator

Virgil Solis (Engraver)

Type

Text

Woodcut Engraving

Identifier

mta:11855

Language

spa

Source Name

Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]

Parent Collection

Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)

Image

mta_11855_OBJ.jpg

Collection

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Subject

Centaurs

Lapiths

Roman Mythology

Greek Mythology

Betrayal

Abduction