Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Bellerophon on Pegasus Fresco 1746

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Bellerophon on Pegasus Fresco, 1746 -1747 Palazzo Labia, Venice

Chimera di Arezzo, Museo Archeologico di Firenze

Chimera. Apulian red-figure dish, 350 -340 BC. Louvre Museum, Paris

Alexander Andreevich Ivanov, Bellerophon Rides to Kill the Chimaera, , 1829 Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg

Bellerophon on his winged horse Pegasos kills Chimaira Frieze on the tomb of a Lykian Prince. Relief from the Heroon of Goelbasi-Trysa in Lycia, Turkey. Limestone (early 4 th BCE). Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Bellerophon and Pegasos killing the Chimaera. Laconian cup, 570 - 565 BC.

SCHALLER, Johann Nepomuk Bellerophon Fighting the Chimaera 1821 Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna

Peter Paul Rubens Bellerophon Riding Pegasus Fighting the Chimaera, 1635

Veroli Casket (from the cathedral at Veroli, near Rome), ca. 1000. Bellorophon and Pegasus (left panel) and Story of Iphigenia (right panel). Ivory and bone on wood, Made in Constantinople. Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Odilon Redon Pegasus, 1900

Clay acroterion in the shape of Pegasus. Museo Gregoriano Profano, Vatican Museums

Aided by Pallas Athene, Bellerophon , ( Βελλεροφόντης ) ("bearing darts") , succeeded in taming Pegasus, the winged horse serving Zeus. It had sprung from the body of the Medusa after her decapitation by Perseus. Riding Pegasus, Bellerophon performed many heroic deeds. However, when he set out to take Olympus by storm, Pegasus shook him off, and Bellerophon went mad. Thus he became a symbol of boundless ambition and of pride going before the fall.

Odilon Redon, Pegasus and the Hydra , 1907 Odilon Redon 1905 Pegasus ,

Italian 16 th Century (Attributed to Benvenuto Cellini) Pegasus on the Fountain Hippocrene 1537/1547 ,

Odilon Redon , White Pegasus Odilon Redon The Black Pegasus, 1909 -1910

Niccolò Fiorentino Pegasus , 1485

• : Bellerophon and the Chimera, edge of an Attic red-figure epinetron )thigh-protector used by a woman when weaving), 425 – 420 BC.

Bellerophon and the Chimera,

Bellerophon and the Chimaera. Terracotta flask with moulded medallions, made in Apulia, 300– 250 BC. British Museum, London

Bellerophon fighting the Chimera. Side A of an attic black-figured “double-decker” Siana cup, 575– 550 BC. Found in Camiros (Rhodes ). Musée du Louvre, Paris

TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista, Bellerophon on Pegasus, 1746 -47 Fresco, Palazzo Labia, Venice

TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista The Force of Eloquence 1723 Palazzo Sandi, Venice The frescoes of mythological and allegorical subjects in the main hall and two other chambers of the Palazzo Sandi are among Tiepolo's greatest works. They reveal that he was already master of a distinctive and independent style.

Bertoldo di Giovanni , Bellerophon Taming Pegasus Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jacques Lipchitz Bellerophon Taming Pegasus

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Bellerophon on Pegasus Fresco detail , 1746 -1747 Palazzo Labia, Venice

Bellerophon on Pegasus fighting the Chimera. Red figure guttus, 5 th BCE. From Nola, Italy. Louvre, Paris

Bellerophon mounted on Pegasus fighting the Chimaira. Detail from an Attic red-figure pelike 440 BC. Louvre , Paris

Homer, Iliad, book vi. “There is a city in a part of Argos, land where horses breed, a place called Ephyra. 0 There Sisyphus lived, craftiest man ever born, Sisyphus, Aeolus' son. He had a son, Glaucus, father of handsome Bellerophon. The gods made Bellerophon so beautiful and gave him the best qualities of men. But Proetus, in his heart, plotted against him, driving him from Argos, being much stronger, for Zeus had given royal power to Proetus. Now, Proetus' wife, lady Antea, desperate to have sex with Bellerophon,

Marcus Aurelius, Corinth. Rt. - Bellerophon riding right on Pegasus, branding spear at chimera beneath.

wanted him to lie with her in secret. But fiery Bellerophon refused, for he possessed an honourable heart. So Antea made up lies, telling Proetus, the king, 'You'll be murdered, Proetus, unless you assassinate Bellerophon, who wants to have sex with me against my will. ' Proetus was overcome with anger at what he'd heard, but he was reluctant to kill Bellerophon—in his heart he shrank from doing such an evil act. He sent Bellerophon to Lycia, with a lethal message, coded symbols inscribed on a folded tablet. These told many lies about Bellerophon. Proetus told him to give the message

Terracotta relief : Bellerophon fighting the Chimera , Melos , about 450 BC

to his father-in-law, so he'd be killed. Bellerophon went off to Lycia, under safe conduct from the gods. When in Lycia he reached the river Xanthus, he was honoured fully by the Lycian king, with nine days of welcome entertainment, nine sacrificial oxen. The tenth day, when rose-fingered Dawn appeared, the Lycian king questioned Bellerophon, asking to see the message he had brought from Proetus, his father-in-law. Once he'd received the evil message from his son-in-law, he told Bellerophon, first of all, to kill the Chimera, an invincible monster, inhuman, but divine in origin. Its front part was a lion, its rear end a snake, and in between a goat. She breathed deadly rage, in searing fire.

But Bellerophon killed the Chimera, putting his trust in omens from the gods. Next, he battled the Solymi, the worst fight, they say, he ever had with mortal beings. Then, third, he massacred the Amazons, women who rival men. The king planned one more devious evil trick against him, as he was returning from the Amazons, setting Lycia's best men in ambush. But none of them came back again— worthy Bellerophon killed them all. The king then knew he must be born divine. So he kept him with him there in Lycia, gave him his daughter's hand in marriage, and half the honours in the entire kingdom. The Lycians gave him an estate far better than the rest, rich in vineyards and wheat-growing land, for him to keep. ”

Redon, Odilon Pegasus and Bellerophon. 1888. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bronze casket (cista) with an incised scene of Bellerophon and Pegasus (roll out image. 325 -275 BCE. Used primarily to hold a lady's toilet articles. Found at Palestrina (ancient Praeneste) in Latium, Italy, which was heavily influenced by both the Etruscans and the Greek colonies in Southern Italy. British Museum, London

Bellerophon and the crowning of a young woman. Detail of a Roman mosaic from the House of the Nymphs. The woman wears the golden veil of a married woman, but the meaning of the scene is unclear. Museum, Nabeul, Tunisia

Fragment of a trabeation from Palestrina, Etruscan. Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome

Pegasus, 1335 -1340. Pegasus, the winged horse, at the foot of a mountain. From an address in Latin verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato, Tuscany. British Library, London

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