Name this famous relief sculpture and the time period it is from. Describe what is happening in the sculpture. Is this sculpture characteristic of the time period in which it was created in?

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Kyleigh Meyers

5 May, 07:20

Name this famous relief sculpture and the time period it is from. Describe what is happening in the sculpture. Is this sculpture characteristic of the time period in which it was created in?

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Battle of the Centaurs - Late 1400's - The Greek sculptors of the school of Pheidias perceived the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs as symbolic of the great conflict between order and chaos and, more specifically, between the civilized Greeks and Persian "barbarians". It is a sculpture characteristic of the time period in which it was created in.