Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur, the late Cyrus JLawrence, Esq., New York . 359. 359—(6) Theseus Fighting Centaur Bronze group. 1850. Antique patina. Originally this groupwas called Lapith and Centaur, but as the sculptor worked atit he particularized so far as to decide which man and which man-horse was intended. The man is Theseus, the centaur Roman poet makes Nestor, telling yarns to the warriors beforeTroy, describe the wild work that occurred at a certain weddingin Thessaly to which the Lapiths invited the Centaurs. Afterthe ruct
Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur, the late Cyrus JLawrence, Esq., New York . 359. 359—(6) Theseus Fighting Centaur Bronze group. 1850. Antique patina. Originally this groupwas called Lapith and Centaur, but as the sculptor worked atit he particularized so far as to decide which man and which man-horse was intended. The man is Theseus, the centaur Roman poet makes Nestor, telling yarns to the warriors beforeTroy, describe the wild work that occurred at a certain weddingin Thessaly to which the Lapiths invited the Centaurs. Afterthe ruction began, Theseus leaps on the back of tall Bianor,fixes his knees in his ribs, and, holding his long hair, seized withhis left hand, shatters his face and his threatening features andhis very hard temples with the knotty oak. Barye illustratesthis earliest of forerunners of Donnybrook Fair. With his lefthand he presses Blanors head back, and with a knobbed stickhauls off to crack his skull. For some reason, perhaps to get thespace under the horses barrel filled, the sculptor has placed adrapery under Theseus. It flows dow
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