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Centaur is a serif typeface by book and typeface designer Bruce Rogers, based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson around 1470. [1] He used it for his design of the Oxford Lectern Bible.
Pallas and the Centaur is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482.It is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.It has been proposed as a companion piece to his Primavera, though it is a different shape. [1]
The Centaurs, a 1921 animated film by Winsor McCay, features what appears to be a family of centaurs.Only fragments of the film have survived. Centaurs, among many other mythological creatures, played a key role in one in the 1940 Disney animated film Fantasia in the segment Symphony No. 6 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
A popular subject of art in ancient Greece, the story was suggested to Michelangelo by the classical scholar and poet Poliziano. The sculpture is exhibited in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. Battle of the Centaurs was a remarkable sculpture in several ways, presaging Michelangelo's future sculptural direction. Michelangelo had departed ...
Kimiko Glenn as Horse, a brave warhorse who is separated from her rider and ends up in the magical dimension called Centaurworld. Horse loses her armour and becomes more cartoonish due to exposure to Centaurworld’s atmosphere, though this causes her to have access to magic.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the Civilization series.Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd century, the game begins as seven competing ideological factions land on the planet Chiron ("Planet") in the Alpha Centauri star system.
In the "Imagines", the rhetorician Philostratus the Elder gives a brief description of the Centaurides: . 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.
The Greek word kentauros is generally regarded as being of obscure origin. [3] The etymology from ken + tauros, 'piercing bull', was a euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales (Περὶ ἀπίστων), which included mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom. [4]