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View at the museum ↗Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Geronima Cagnaccia Parasolec. 1600
- Attribution
- Geronima Cagnaccia Parasole (Italian, c. 1569-1622) after Antonio Tempesta (Italian, 1555-1630)
- Medium
- Woodcut on cream laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- 41.5 × 67.2 cm (16 3/8 × 26 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
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According to ancient myth, a fierce battle broke out between the Lapiths, legendary natives of Thessaly in Greece, and the half-human and half-horse Centaurs. Geronima Cagnaccia Parasole, a woman printmaker widely admired in Rome for her skill in woodcutting, based this print on a drawing by Antonio Tempesta, a prolific artist well known at the time for his images of horses in dynamic poses. With its large scale, complex composition, and rich detail, this was Parasole’s most ambitious and accomplished work.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0