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Combat of Centaurs and Lapiths painted in grisaille by the Sodoma from a drawing by Andrea Mantegna

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as 'Il Sodoma' (Vercelli, 1477 – Siena, 1549) Combattimento dei Centauri e dei Lapiti Combat of Centaurs and Lapiths painted in grisaille by the Sodoma from a drawing by Andrea Mantegna. Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Main Cloister. foto e filmato di Luigi Manfredi 28 Agosto 2022 Located under one of the two glasses open on the so-called "De Profundis" room, the battle of the Centaurs and the Lapiths , was painted in grisaille by the Sodoma from a drawing by Andrea Mantegna. The source of the story is found in Ovid 's Metamorphoses [ 1] [1] Ovid, Metamorphoses , “Book XII”. (Translation and notes by A.-M. Boxus and J. Poucet). Brussels, 2008. “Lapiths and Centaurs (I)”: (12, 235 – 257): “Precisely there was nearby, decorated with carvings in relief, an ancient crater. This enormous vase, bigger than himself, the son of Aegeus lifted it and threw it at the head of his adversary. The latter, vomiting through his mouth and through his wound blood in clots mixed with his wine and his brains, lying on his back in the damp sand, shakes his hooves. This murder boils with rage his Centaur brothers who all shout with one voice: “To arms, to arms”. The wine gave them courage and, from the start of the fight, the cups flew: the fragile vases and the plump basins, formerly tableware, were then used for war and massacres.The first, Amycus, son of Ophion, did not hesitate to strip the sanctuary of its offerings. He was also the first to remove from the temple a candelabra garnished with many sparkling lamps. He raises it high, and, like the sacrificer ready to break the neck of a white bull under the ax of sacrifice, he throws it on the forehead of Céladon the Lapith, transforming into a confused heap of bones his face, which has become unrecognizable. . The eyes pop out of their sockets and the blow shattered his bones, and rammed his nose which stuck in the middle of the palate. Having torn off a table leg of maple wood, an inhabitant of Pella, Pelates, laid Amycus on the ground, her chin on her chest, spitting his teeth mixed with black blood, then sent him to join the shadows of Tartarus, dealing him a second blow. […]” https://provincedesienne.com/2020/01/...