Centaur carrying a youth and teaching him to play the lyre

Centaur carrying a youth and teaching him to play the lyre.. Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. Centaur carrying a youth and teaching him to play the lyre, as Chiron taught Achilles. The boy holds a thyrsus decorated with a ribbon and a gold tympanum drum. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own Antichita di Ercolano (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789

1749 1789 Achilles Antichità Antiquities Centaur Chiron Ercolano Herculaneum Lyre Piroli Pompeii Removed Taught Thyrsus Tommaso Triclinium Tympanum

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