#lapiths

[weepingwidar]

Fernand Cormon (French, 1845-1924) - Le Combat des Centaures et des Lapithes (The Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapiths) (1913)

[tragediambulante]

Battle of the Centaurs, Michelangelo Buonarroti, about 1492

[mythologypaintings]

Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs

Artist: Rafael Tegeo Díaz (Spanish, 1798 - 1856)

Date: 1835

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Pirithous, king of the Lapiths in Thessaly, prepared a lavish banquet for his wedding to the Argolid princess Hippodameia . Both were related to the centaurs, who were invited to the celebration. During the wedding ceremony, the Lapiths forgot to include Mars in their offerings , which immediately had a terrible consequence. Enraged, the god of war incited the centaurs, who, drunk and unable to control their beastly side, attempted to kidnap and rape the Lapith women. Eurytus , the centaur leader, who coveted his cousin Pirithous's new wife, abducted Hippodameia.

[illustratus]

Battle of the Centaurs against the Lapiths by Giuseppe Simonelli

The present painting represents the mythological episode when Hercules battled the Centaurs. Hercules brandishes his club, his typical attribute, at the centre of the scene. He is flanked and framed on each side by Centaurs, one of whom is about to release an arrow.

[romegreeceart]

Bassae Frieze - Lapiths fight centaurs (1)

* Temple of Apollo at Bassae

* 420-400 BCE

* British Museum

London, July 2022

[olympiagreece]

Journey to Olympia (XVIII)

[didoofcarthage]

Details from The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths by the circle of Charles de la Fosse. French, 17th or 18th century. Red chalk with red-brown wash on paper. Via Christie’s. 

[sarafangirlart]

Caeneus becoming king of Lapiths very much suggests (outright states) that his family and his ppl accept him and yet…