Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Pallas and the Centaur
Image View:
Detail, figure of Pallas Athena (or Camilla) with halberd
Creator:
Sandro Botticelli (Italian painter, ca. 1444-1510)
Location:
repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.768639 11.255214
Date:
1482-1483 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera paint on canvas
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
207 cm (height) x 148 cm (width)
Description:
Painted for Giovanni and Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici in the early 1480s. At the Uffizi since 1922. A centaur has trespassed on forbidden territory. This lusty being, half horse and half man, is being brought under control by a guard armed with a shield and halberd, and she has grabbed him by the hair. The woman has been identified both as the goddess Pallas Athena and the Amazon Camilla, chaste heroine of Virgil's Aeneid. What is undisputed is the moral content of the painting, in which virtue is victorious over sensuality. This painting marked the end of Botticelli's Medici period and from this point on his subject-matter becomes increasingly religious. (Source: Uffizi Gallery [website]; https://www.virtualu ffizi.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-BS-UG-PC-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Pallas and the Centaur