Centaur Battle
The Kentaurenschlacht (also Centauromachy or Centauromachia ) is an important early work of the Italian Renaissance -Künstlers Michelangelo who created it to 1,492th It is an unfinished relief of marble that a scene from Greek mythology , the battle between Lapiths and Centaurs is located today in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence.
literature
- John F. Moffitt: Another look at Michelangelo's "Centauromachia". Source: Notes in the History of Art, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Summer 2006), pp. 16-26 ( JSTOR 23207915 )
- Margrit Lisner: Form and meaning of Michelangelo's battle of the Centaurs, with notes on Bertoldo di Giovanni . Communications from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 24th vol., No.3 (1980), pp. 299–344 ( JSTOR 27652505 )
- Volker Herzner: The Sistine Ceiling - why Michelangelo was allowed to paint what he wanted . Georg Olms Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15229-5 , pp. 298-300
Web links
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