POMPEI ARCHEOLOGICA: “Due Centauresse,” – L’Arte al Museo Nazionale di Napoli (1880), p. 22 e Tav. 12.

POMPEI ARCHEOLOGICA: “Due Centauresse,” – L’Arte al Museo Nazionale di Napoli (1880), p. 22 e Tav. 12.
POMPEI ARCHEOLOGICA: “Due Centauresse,” – L’Arte al Museo Nazionale di Napoli (1880), p. 22 e Tav. 12.
“How beautiful the Centaurides are, even where they are horses; for some grow out of white mares, others are attached to chestnut mares, and the coats of others are dappled, but they glisten like those of horses that are well cared for. There is also a white female Centaur that grows out of a black mare, and the very opposition of the colours helps to produce the united beauty of the whole.”
- Philostratus the Elder, Imagines. Philostratus the Younger, Imagines. Callistratus, Descriptions. (Loeb Classical Library No. 256), 1931. Imagines 2.3.
- L’Arte al Museo Nazionale di Napoli (1880), p. 22 e Tav. 12, “Due Centauresse. Sono sul fondo nero effigiate, maesrevolmente dipinte. La bianca parte cavallina del corpo e` a quel modo trattata, per armonizzare e congiungerli artisticamente alla dedicata pelle dei dorsi femminili, Illustatre dagli Ercolanesi Accademici e da varii posteriormente, sono queste centauresse fra la pitture piu` note pervenute da Pompei.” Pagine 22 e Tavolo 12.

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ROME - THE IMPERIAL FORA. The Documentation and Dissemination of the Recent Archaeological Investigations and Related Studies (1995-2011). Una vera miniera per tutti gli appassionati di archeologia. Con informazioni 'in tempo reale' sulle ultime scoperte archeologiche.

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