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A hero (Theseus?) about to stab the centaur Euritus who had attempted to rape Hippodamia; wife of Pirithous. It provoked the famous war between the Lapiths and the centaurs described by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. Painting on marble excavated in Resina in March 1749. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own 鈥楢ntichita di Ercolano' (Antiquities of Herculaneum); Rome; 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.
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