Battle of the Centaurs (Michelangelo)

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Battle of the Centaurs

Artist	Michelangelo
Year	c. 1492
Type	Marble
Dimensions	84.5 cm × 90.5 cm (33.3 in × 35.6 in)
Location	Casa Buonarroti

Battle of the Centaurs is a relief done by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, around 1492. It is in the Florentine museum Casa Buonarroti.

Battle is the second known piece made by Michelangelo. It was carved in white Carrara marble for Lorenzo de' Medici and left unfinished at the prince's death. Variously identified as the Battle of the Centaurs and the Rape of Deianira or Battle of Hercules and the Centaurs, it reflects Michelangelo's study of late Roman sarcophagi, Bertoldo, the Pisani and Pollaiuolo. The subject of the piece was, if Michelangelo's biographer Ascanio Condivi is to be believed, suggested by the poet Angelo Poliziano.

Michelangelo

Sculptures

Head of a faun (c. 1488) • Madonna of the stairs (c. 1491) • Battle of the Centaurs (c. 1492) • Crucifix (1492) • The Ark of St Dominic: St Petronius (1494–95), St Proclus (1494–95) and Angel (1494–95) • Sleeping Cupid (1496) • Standing Cupid • Bacchus (1496–97) • Pietà (1499–1500) • David (1501-04) • Madonna of Bruges (1501–04) • St. Paul (1503–04) • St. Peter (1503–04) • Pius (1503–04) • Taddei Tondo (c. 1503) • Pitti Tondo (c. 1503) • St. Matthew (c. 1505) • Tomb of Pope Julius II (1503) • Moses (c. 1513–15) • Rebellious Slave (1513–16) • Dying Slave (1513–16) • Medici Chapel (1520–34) • The Genius of Victory (c. 1532–34) • Rachel (1545) • Leah (1545) • Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici • Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici • Virgin and Child • Apollo (David) (c. 1530) • Crouching Boy (c. 1530-34) • Cristo della Minerva (Christ Carrying the Cross) (1519–20) • Brutus (1540) • Palestrina Pietà (1550) • Florentine Pietà (c. 1550) • Rondanini Pietà (1552–64)

Paintings

Panel paintings	The Torment of Saint Anthony (c. 1487-88) • Manchester Madonna (c. 1497) • Doni Tondo (c. 1503–06) • The Entombment (c. 1505)

Lost paintings	Battle of Cascina (1504) • Leda and the Swan (1530)

Sistine Chapel frescoes	Ceiling (1508–12) (including The Creation of Adam, 1511) • The Last Judgment (1534–41)

Pauline Chapel frescoes	The Martyrdom of St Peter (1542–50) • The Conversion of Saul (1542–50)

Architecture

Florence	New Sacristy (1520–34) and Laurentian Library (1523–59) in the Basilica of San Lorenzo

Rome	Piazza del Campidoglio (1538) • Palazzo Farnese (1546) • St. Peter's Basilica (1546–1564) • San Giovanni dei Fiorentini (1559–60) • Porta Pia (1561–65) • Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri (1561–)