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Pallas and the Centaur. Pallas and the Centaur is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It has been proposed as a companion piece to his Primavera, though it is a different shape. [1] The medium used is tempera paints on canvas and its size is 207 x 148 cm.
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Sandro Botticelli (also known as Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) is one of the most popular Italian Renaissance painters. His work is seen as a link between the late Italian Gothic and the innovation of the Early Renaissance. He is famed for his carefully rendered scenes from mythology, most notably, The Birth of Venus and Primavera (both ...
One of Botticelli’s most successful works is Pallas and the Centaur, created around 1482 using tempera on canvas. To the left of the image is a centaur. To the right is a female figure, clutching the centaur’s hair. The identity of this female figure is unclear. In the earliest record of the painting – an inventory of 1499 – she was named as Camill...
Pallas’ dress is decorated with the three ring insignia, a symbol of the Medici family – which indicates that they were probably Botticelli’s patrons. The Medici family was an Italian banking family and political dynasty which grew to enormous wealth and power. They produced four popes of the Catholic Church (Pope Leo X, Pope Clement VII, Pope Pius...
Pallas wears branches around her head, arms, breasts and hips. These could either symbolise Camilla’s forest dwelling, or they could be olive branches – the olive tree was a symbol of Pallas. Some have suggested these are laurel branches, a possible pun alluding to Lorenzo de’ Medici. Despite Pallas’ graceful, feminine appearance, on her back is a ...
Like many of the Medici paintings, today, Pallas and the Centaur hangs in the Uffizi gallery in Florence. In the later 16th century it hung in the Palazzo Vecchio, the town hall in Florence. In 1638 it was at the Medici Villa di Castello, along with Primavera. By 1830 it had been moved to Palazzo Pitti, a palace situated on the south side of the Ri...
Alessandro Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1445-1510)Commissioner, collector: Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco or Lorenzo il Magnifico (?)Epoch, date:...
Pallas and the Centaur (1482), sometimes called Camilla and the Centaur or Minerva and the Centaur, depicts an allegorical figure and a mythical creature (see Appendix Image 2). The woman holds a halberd and grasps a centaur by the hair. Her tunic fabric bears the repeated image of three, sometimes four, interlocked rings, a known Medici symbol.
Aug 27, 2024 · In this case, however, we do have supporting evidence in the form of this Pallas figurative sketch that much planning was put into the final artwork. Pallas Athena, a beautiful armed guard with shield and halberd has captured a centaur who has wandered into sacred land. This mythical scene was to be the last of his Medicean period, moving on ...
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