Deyanira es robada por el Centauro Neso · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Deyanira es robada por el Centauro Neso
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: River Evenus; Ancient Greece
Description: Deianira is illustrated on Nessus shoulders as he abducts her and carriers her across the river of Evenus. She is reaching out to her husband Heracles who is aiming his bow and arrow at Nessus the centaur. Nessus is pictured as half man, with the bottom half resembling a horse.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24799
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_24799_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Greek Mythology; Roman Mythology; Hercules; Deianira; Abduction; Centaurs; Heracles