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Entitled "The Rape of Deianira...
Antonio Pollaiuolo's painting to be exhibited in the Fogg Museum is entitled. "The Rape of Deianira." The description of the painting in the Catalogue of the Yale Jarves Collection is as follows...
...centaur Nessus is galloping through a stream with Deianira on his back. He is holding with both hands the frightened woman, whose transparent white garments flutter in the wind. She is wrestling to get free from the grip of the centaur. To the right on the shore stands Hercules, stretching his bow ready to send an arrwo into the centaur. He is a nude athlete with intense 'tactile value,' the whole figure having the tension of a steel spring strained to the limit. The very extensive landscape which is dominated by the winding river, represents a view of the Arno...
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