Pallas and the Centaur, Sandro Botticelli, 1480-85
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Pallas and the Centaur, c1480-1485, 1937. by Sandro Botticelli (1937, )
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Triumph of the Virtues aka Pallas or Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue (1502) - Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506)
The triumph was the second picture painted by Mantegna for Isabella d'Este's studiolo (cabinet), after the Parnassus of 1497. It portrays a marsh enclosed by a tall fence, ruled over by the Vices, portrayed as hideous figures and identified by scrolls in a typically medieval way. Idleness is chased by Minerva, who is also rescuing Diana, goddess of chastity, from being raped by a Centaur, symbol of concupiscence. Next to Minerva is a tree with human features. High in the sky are the three primary moral virtues required to perfect the appetitive powers: Justice, Temperance and Fortitude.
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Isabelle de Borchgrave’s gorgeous paper recreations of Botticelli’s Flora and Pallas’ dresses and their original counterparts:
“Primavera” by Sandro Botticcelli, ca. 1477-82
“Pallas and the Centaur” by Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1482
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BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Pallas and the Centaur
c. 1482
Tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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30 AI-Generated Personas I did over on my Twitter. Names below the read more - see how many you can guess! They are a mixture of mostly mythological figures with a small handful of literary ones thrown in.
Karamazov, Curupira, Phoenix
Centaur, Hypnos, Saturn
Hou Yi, Nucklavee, Rusalka
Ameinias, Gautama, Prometheus
Medshelemet, Boto Cor-De-Roja, Son Wukong
Erzulie Freda, Krueger, Ekalavya
Pallas, Greysteil, Anata Shesha
Exu, Sisyphus, Yasunori Kato
Shishupala, Green Knight, Arachne
Diogenes, Adam (Frankenstein's Monster), Persephone
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2024 Libra Full Moon/Eclipse
Monday, March 25, 07:00 UT, 5°07’ Libra
Chart erected for Washington, DC
The key phrases for the Full lunar phase are “culminate, fulfill, illumine, manifest;” and “put all our efforts into our intentions.”
Really, there is just not too much going on with the eclipse itself, is there? Wide aspects to Pluto and Pallas Athene. Bit of a reach, I’d say.
So let’s look at the rulers. Venus (ruler of Libra) is in a very unpleasant sandwich between Saturn and the centaur Nessus. The phrase/taunt “throwing yourself a pity party” comes to mind. And, Steven Forrest (in The Book of Earth) wrote about “the drunken torpor and toxic stability of bad love” with a malfunctioning Venus/Pisces - “toxic” = Nessus and “stability” = Saturn. With the Moon and the South Node in Libra, this is a good time to purge that “toxic stability.”
Mars has just started its trip through Pisces. It isn’t making any close major aspects to anything (yet). There’s an exact semi-square to the Aries North Node, which shows how uncertain we are about what we’re “supoosed” to be doing - and how that uncertainty is very unpleasant. Patience! This is the perfect time for creative visualization.
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Sandro Botticelli (Italian, c. 1445-1510) • Pallas and Centaur • c. 1482 • Tempera on canvas • Uffizi, Florence
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Imagine Ezio visiting a relative of Lorenzo after his death and seeing this:
The owner tells him it's called Pallas and the Centaur by Sandro Botticelli and Ezio remembers Minerva so he just goes and say that she should look more elegant (and maybe a hint of arrogance) and the owner stares at him as he continues his explanation, "Messere Lorenzo had commissioned it to have the likeness of his daughter who died when she was eleven."
And Ezio is just
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”Allegory of the Immaculate Conception” // Giorgio Vasari
”Self-portrait” // Anthony van Dyck
”Pallas and the Centaur” // Sandro Botticelli
”Madonna and the Child” // Fra Filippo Lippi
”Immaculate Conception with Saints” // Piero di Cosimo
”Rest on the Flight into Egypt” // Jacopo Zucchi
Paintings from Galleria degli Uffizi // Florence, Italy
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Pallas and the Centaur (detail) by Botticelli (c. 1482)
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