Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

Prints and Drawings

c. 1600

Geronima Cagnaccia Parasole (Italian, c. 1569-1622)
after Antonio Tempesta (Italian, 1555-1630)

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.

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Artist: Geronima Cagnaccia Parasole
Title: Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1595–1605
Medium: Woodcut on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 41.5 × 67.2 cm (16 3/8 × 26 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
Reference Number: 1999.684
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