. Barye : life and works of Antoine Louis Barye ... in memory of an exhibition of his bronzes, paintings, and water-colors, held at New York, in aid of the fund for his monument at Paris. mpare the vulgar Western term cow-punchers—andlater horse-bull-drivers (hippocentaurs) it is extremely likely thatwe owe the centaur of Greek art to a mixture of ideas among the Creeksof the Asia Minor coast. They had seen on the Euphrates, cut in softstone, the majestic man-bulls, and heard from Creece of the equestrianbull-drivers whose crest was a horses head. In all probability we havea singular and compl
. Barye : life and works of Antoine Louis Barye ... in memory of an exhibition of his bronzes, paintings, and water-colors, held at New York, in aid of the fund for his monument at Paris. mpare the vulgar Western term cow-punchers—andlater horse-bull-drivers (hippocentaurs) it is extremely likely thatwe owe the centaur of Greek art to a mixture of ideas among the Creeksof the Asia Minor coast. They had seen on the Euphrates, cut in softstone, the majestic man-bulls, and heard from Creece of the equestrianbull-drivers whose crest was a horses head. In all probability we havea singular and complete instance of the march of a Semitic art-ideafrom Asia into Europe, which idea became Aryanized in the process,changing from the bull, more common to Semitic moon-worship (thegolden calf, the brazen serpent, Moloch, Astarte, Baal) to the horse, thefavorite Aryan symbol of the sun. * The Centaur and Lapith as it was first called differs in certain par-ticulars from its secondary form here given and named with moreparticularity the Combat of Theseus and the Centaur Bianor. In the * Antoine Louis Barye. In The Century Magazine, February, 1886. By HenryEckford (Charles de Kay). 76. fr 1= o o - w 60 fi 53 « = &; W <u e- ao <1 p Oh P3 o IMPEOVEMENT ON THE FIEST DESIGN former state the raised fore-foot of the centaur has hoof and pasternstraighter forward and the tail straighter out behind, as if movementhad hardly been arrested. The drapery is different and the hair of thecentaurs head is less broadly treated than it became later. His lefthand, which may be seen clawing the air, was gripped on the Lapithsshoulder and his face expressed less the supreme agony. The Lapithsright knee was pressed to the barrel of the human horse and his lefthand instead of pushing the centaurs head grasps his throat. In gen-eral it may be said that Barye altered the group by advancing from anearlier stage of the combat to the crisis. The hoofs stumble, the mouthof the centaur is wide in death,
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