Francesco PrimaticcioItálie, 1504–1570Centaur and Lapith
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An elaborate helmet and notes specifying colors suggest that Francesco Primaticcio's Centaur and Lapith, about 1540, prepared festival costumes. The drawing is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Its ornamental treatment and limited movement also support that possibility; assistants could use the notes to translate the design into cloth. It probably represented one episode within a larger arrangement. In the myth, the Lapiths invite their centaur neighbors to a royal wedding, but wine drives the guests to seize the women, including the bride. The resulting battle ends with the centaurs defeated and expelled.
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Given the ornamental character of this drawing and the scene's relative lack of movement, court artist Francesco Primaticcio probably made it as a preparatory study for costume designs for a festival. The color notes that he included also support the idea of a costume design, since the assistants in his workshop would have needed such notes to faithfully re-create his design in fabric. Several of his other costume designs include elaborately decorated helmets such as the one this centaur wears. Primaticcio probably depicted only one element in a larger composition celebrating the popular story of the neighboring tribes of the centaurs and the Lapiths. According to classical mythology, the Lapiths invited the centaurs to their king's wedding, but the centaurs responded by carrying off the Lapith women-even the bride-under the influence of wine. The battle that ensued ended with the centaurs' defeat and expulsion from the Lapiths' country.
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