Items matching centaurs

centaurs: mythical creatures with the head of a human (usually a man) and the body of a horse

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November

A portly man sits astride a bearded centaur. The centaur is wearing a helmet and carrying a spear. The mean wears a monk’s tunic and is mopping his tonsured brow. A poem underneath the image: NOVEMBER [...]

Keywords: people, centaurs, spears, monks, calendars, months, november

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Added: 2006-01-09

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Drollery (margin-creature), Jester Centaur

The Rylands Haggadah (1575)

A drollery, or grotesque, from the margin of folio 33b: a centaur dressed as a jester.

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, centaurs, calligraphy, illumination, colour

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Added: 2008-10-14

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