Figure 10.9

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Description: Centaur and lapith from the west pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia

TitleCentaur and lapith from the west pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureGreek

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 460 BC

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationArchaeological Museum of Olympia, Greece

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsSculpture, GreekMarble sculpture, ClassicalTemple of Zeus (Olympia, Greece)Centaurs in art

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10. The Road Not Taken

Robin Osborne

The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece

~The account that I gave in chapters 3 to 8 of the changing imagery of war, athletics, sexual relations, relations with the gods, drinking parties and reveling, and of satyrs was a broad-brush...

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Robin Osborne

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.228-248

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00355.10

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Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, GreekTheater--GreeceCritius (Sculptor), active 5th century B.C.Pottery, GreekTemple of Zeus (Olympia, Greece)Relief (Sculpture), GreekParthenon (Athens, Greece)Sculpture, ClassicalStele (Archaeology)--GreeceFuneral rites and ceremonies--Greece

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Farnese Hercules

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 17

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

LocationNational Archaeological Museum, Naples

Accession number6001

Farnese Hercules

Gratian, "Decretum": Inhabited Initial H

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation datec. 1170–1180

Object typeBook/Manuscript

MaterialsTempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment

LocationJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/103479/unknown-maker-inhabited-initial-h-french-about-1170-1180/

Accession numberMs. Ludwig XIV 2, fol. 8v

Gratian, "Decretum": Inhabited Initial H

Centaurs floor mosaic

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 24

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. AD 120–130

Object typeMosaic

MaterialsNatural stones

Dimensions23 x 36 in. (58.5 x 91.5 cm)

LocationStaatliche Museen zu Berlin

https://id.smb.museum/object/697074

Accession numberMos. 1

Centaurs floor mosaic

Statue of an Old Centaur, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 24

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

LocationCapitoline Museums, Rome

Statue of an Old Centaur, detail

Statue of a Young Centaur, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 24

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

LocationCapitoline Museums, Rome

Statue of a Young Centaur, detail

Statue of a Young Centaur

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 24

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

Dimensions53 1/2 in. (136 cm)

LocationCapitoline Museum, Rome

http://www.museicapitolini.org/it/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/palazzo_nuovo/salone/statua_di_centauro_giovane_firmata_da_aristeas_e_papias

Accession numberinv. MC0656

Statue of a Young Centaur

Elderly Centaur tortured by Eros

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 06

Creator name (description)After Pergamene original of c. 200 BC

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

Materialsmarble

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010278904

Elderly Centaur tortured by Eros

Model of a house on a platform

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date100 BC–AD 300

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

Dimensions13 7/8 x 11 1/4 x 7 in. (35.2 x 28.6 x 17.8 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/120440

Accession number1991.479

Model of a house on a platform

Marsyas

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator name (description)Restored by (?)Mino da Fiesole

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Marsyas

Jupiter (fragment)

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator name (description)Of Hellenistic type

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationMuseo Archeologico, Naples

Jupiter (fragment)

Statue of an Old Centaur

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 24

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationCapitoline Museum, Rome

Statue of an Old Centaur

Bust of Marcus Aurelius

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator name (description)Roman or (?)Tullio Lombardo

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationMuseo Archeologico, Naples

Bust of Marcus Aurelius

The Young Centaur

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 24

Creator name (description)After a drawing by Pompeo Batoni

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1739

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

LocationBiblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

The Young Centaur

Model of a circular ceremonial center

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 100–800

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsCeramic and pigment

Dimensions13 x 18 1/2 in. (33 x 47 cm )

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/75238

Accession number1989.639

Model of a circular ceremonial center

Muse of Philiskos

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator name (description)Resored by (?)Tullio Lombardo

Creator nationality/cultureHellenistic

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationMuseo Archeologico, Venice

Muse of Philiskos

Series of male statues

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 06

Creator roleIllustrator

Creation datec. 630–470 BC

Object typeIllustration

Series of male statues

Justinian and his retinue, including Archbishop Maximian

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 545-547AD

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

Justinian and his retinue, including...

Justinian and his retinue, including Archbishop Maximian

Group portrait of a man and woman as Mars and Venus, from Isola Sacra

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 30

Creator roleSculptor

Creation dateAD 145–150

Object typeSculpture

LocationMuseo Capitolino, Rome

Group portrait of a man and woman as...

Group portrait of a man and woman as Mars and Venus, from Isola Sacra

Venus de' Medici

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 20

Creator name (description)Cleomenes, son of Apollodorus

Creator nationality/cultureGreek

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 100 BC

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsParian marble

DimensionsH: 153 cm

LocationGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/medici-venus

Accession number1914 no. 224

Venus de' Medici

Storyteller figure

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureJalisco

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 100–800

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

Dimensions22 x 22 in. (55.9 x 55.9 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/73795

Accession number1989.83

Storyteller figure

Elderly Centaur tortured by Eros, detail of face

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 06

Creator name (description)After Pergamene original of c. 200 BC

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Object typeSculpture

Materialsmarble

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010278904

Accession numberMa 562

Elderly Centaur tortured by Eros, detail...

Elderly Centaur tortured by Eros, detail of face

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan worshipping Christ

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator name (description)Presumably Saint Dunstan

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation dateAD 930–970

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBodleian Library, Oxford University, United Kingdom

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/a7ebbb6f-414f-4bb9-9399-b3ed588c15af

Accession numberMs. Auct. F.4.32, fol. 1

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan...

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan worshipping Christ

Codex Tudela: Indian costumes

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 18

Creator nationality/cultureAztec

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1530–1554

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsLaid paper and natural pigments

LocationMuseo del América, Madrid

Codex Tudela: Indian costumes

Funerary Cheek-Piercing Ritual

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date200 BC–AD 300

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

DimensionsDiameter 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/148347

Accession number1997.475

Funerary Cheek-Piercing Ritual

Theodora and her retinue

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 545 AD-547AD

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

Theodora and her retinue

Description: Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in...

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in Classe

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. AD 668–685

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring...

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in Classe

Laocoön

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 23

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date40–30 B.C.

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

DimensionsH: 95 1/4 in. (242 cm)

LocationVatican Museums, Rome

https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.1059.0.0?lang=en_US

Accession numberCat. 1059

Laocoön

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten Commandments

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation date1373

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Accession numberFr. 14939, fol. 5r

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten...

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten Commandments

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