Centaur - Odilon Redon

Centaur - Odilon RedonA print of Odilon Redon's Centaur the French Symbolist's rendering of the half horse, half man creatures of Greek myth, treated in Redon's characteristic charcoal black Noirs manner. The centaurs of Greek mythology were the wild tempered race born of Ixion and the cloud nymph Nephele, roaming the mountains of Thessaly unstable, dangerous, and yet fathers of some of the most learned figures of the myths (Chiron, tutor of Achilles and of Asclepius, was

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A print of a Hellenistic Prince — the classical bronze type of an idealised nude ruler

the reliefs above each passage narrating episodes from the campaigns of 194–195 and 197–199

daughters of Atlas

Each one retains a high level of detail

the coil of snake against hair

and fierce independence

It survives only through Roman marble copies

Minerva was the Roman counterpart of the Greek Athena — goddess of wisdom

lost now except through Roman copies

The original myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses names Dionysus

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