Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli

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Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli발음듣기

the ancient roman emperor hadrian built the lavish river nuteiville.발음듣기

And in the dining room there was a formal deck and we are looking at a fragment of that, which shows two centaurs and three large cats and it is made of tiny pieces of natural stone which must have taken an enormous amount of patience to create.발음듣기

especially if we consider that this is a small fragment of the very large floor mosaic.발음듣기

these are tiny pieces of drawing and they are put together so that they can create and can be read very clearly even now that they are pieces of stone.발음듣기

in fact these kinds of mosaics might give us an indication of what greek painting looked like.발음듣기

So good a great painting has come down to us.발음듣기

we know from written accounts that the greeks believed that their painting was the greatest art.발음듣기

we generally think of ancient greek sculpture and ancient greek architecture.발음듣기

But perhaps there is painting and all that the greek themselves pailed the comparison to the work they did on the walls and yet none of them survived.발음듣기

the mosaics are really valuable in giving us a sense of what the greeks had been able to achieve.발음듣기

well I thought about this mosaic is the drama.발음듣기

we have the centaur, a mythical creature that is half man and half horse.발음듣기

And he is involved in a battle against these three wild cats He raises his arms and is about to toll a rock down onto a tiger who has attacked another centaur.발음듣기

behind him is another wild cat who has been felled, probably a lion.발음듣기

you will notice that the centaur is about to hurl a rock at the tiger down to his left, looks up and leopard is about to attack him so we really have a sense of split second in time.발음듣기

its true.발음듣기

in fact if you look at the glances it is really interesting.발음듣기

our eyes first go from the centaur to the tiger and we notice that the tiger has just felled another centaur.발음듣기

the tiger looks back at the centaur, but the centaur does not look at the tiger the centaurs eyes have been caught by the leapord.발음듣기

he knows he is about to throw the large boulder, which tells us bout the strength of centaurs but also we realize that he is in danger from the leapord.발음듣기

so this is the kind of triangular relations of the glances of the figures.발음듣기

So that centaur that we see at the center really expresses physical strength.발음듣기

but also a sense of his body and concern.발음듣기

yes its interesting my guess is that the greeks and later the romans might have identified with the centaur that the wild cats usually when we see centaurs,발음듣기

they in battle with the greeks and the greeks are for those we have sympathy for the greeks were for the civilized, where as the centaurs , who are still half wild are the aggressors.발음듣기

here that is reversed.발음듣기

here our sympathy goes to the centaurs because of the human qualities even if they are still half of nature.발음듣기

You know the greeks and later the romans saw themselves as separate from the chaos of nature.발음듣기

and here the centaur represents a kind of brutality but nothing compared to those of the cats. And I think that is beautifully expressed by the emotion , we see on the centaurs face.발음듣기

we read that as a complex union of emotion, of worry fear and also of strength.발음듣기

and of the animal of no emotion.발음듣기

So I think you are right.발음듣기

we are meant to identify with that figure at the center though he is half animal and he is almost draped over his arm.발음듣기

he has actually got the pelt of the leapord.발음듣기

So there is a good reason for the leapord to be annoyed you said that this may give an idea of what ancient Greek painting looked like and in this mosaic we see what we see in ancient Greek sculpture this does revive and there is even an interesting anomaly and naturalism.발음듣기

in fact if you look at the rendering of this central creature, which is obviously impossible this is beautifully rendered that it looks almost possible anatomically.발음듣기

look at the way in which the abdomen of the man moves into the chest of the horse.발음듣기

and we can imagine the way the backbone of both the animals might have united to become one.발음듣기

there is really a sense of believability even in this impossible creature.발음듣기

and we have a very realistic vision of the rocky landscape.발음듣기

these figures have to occupy.발음듣기

the figures of fallen centaur on the left and fallen lion on the right are foreshortened, helping to create this illusion of space.발음듣기

look at the beautiful foreshortening in this still operating centaur.발음듣기

and the way in which the horses legs are going back in space is really beautifully done and the fact that it is done in stone makes it even more impressive.발음듣기

that is really a remarkable achievement.발음듣기

and I would have loved to seen this in it's greater context, in hadrians dining room in his palace,발음듣기

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